System: Make world: a short version
(last edit: 2002-07-01)
                   
Introduction
Make world means update you FreeBSD installation to the latest version. It is very 
important to do this from time to time unless you systems has ony four cables: power, 
mouse, keyboard and video :) There are allot of documents on the net which could be sold 
as books on how you can do a 'make world' (even this site has one). This is a short, don't
 explain just give me version.

Getting the source
Make sure you're root and have 'cvsup' installed (/usr/ports/net/cvsup). Copy the 
'/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile' to the '/root' dir. Edit the file and 
change  the 'CHANG_THIS' to your local server. This should begin with 'cvsup' 
like in  'cvsup.nl.freebsd.org'.

BE AWARE
Make sure the file sais something like 'stable source tree' 
because the file name has changed to 'stable-supfile' at some point and the 
'standard-supfile' is now the 'current source tree' and you don't want that one!!!

Do a 'cvsup -g stable-supfile' and sit back and wait. The entire source is now 
beeing downloaded in '/usr/src'.

Doing the make world
Go to the '/usr/src' dir and type 'make buildworld'. Sit back and wait again (this time get a
coffee it's going to take long).

Rebuilding your kernel
You need to recompile you kernel, you don't need to change the config file just recompile it
like this:

Go to the '/usr/src' dir and type a 'make buildkernel KERNCONF=[your kernel name]' Make sure
this is the name of the config file in '/usr/src/sys/i386/conf' you would like to rebuild.

Finishing up
After all is build well you just have to install it , in the '/usr/src' dir do a:

make installworld
make installkernel KERNCONF=[your kernel name]

Don't forget the installkernel, you will be in allot of mess if you do!!!

Reboot and have fun!!!

Errors
I am kinda paranoid so I removed the 'games' an 'uucp' user becouse I don't use them. The
make world breaks then because it tries to do a 'chown games....'. So I had to put them back
to make it work.

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