Subject: Re: updating userland
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Randy Arabie <rrarabie@arabie.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 09/24/2002 15:47:55
On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Randy Arabie wrote:

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> Is this process documented somewhere, perhaps more thoroughly than the 
> UPDATING file found in /usr/src/?  The UPDATING file, and associated 
> documentation at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/#updating 
> seem to be "-current" centric.  Thus far, those are the only two sources 
> of info I've found WRT upgrading an entire (i.e. kernel + userland) existing 
> system from one release to newer one.  Is the only difference between 
> updating a -current system and what I am doing (1.5.3 --> 1.6) simply the 
> version of sources I am buiding from?

I'll answer my own quetion:

	See the "Upgrading a previously-installed NetBSD System" in the top 
	level directory fo your platforms new relase -

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/alpha/INSTALL.html

RTFM
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Randy
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