So, recently I told you all that the 7.1-RELEASE is near, and you might have expected it already. You guys are too jumpy though 
. It will be there in the first week(s) of january. It will kick 2009′s ass to start with and your waiting will be pleased (hopefully). Just wait a tiny bit longer and you’ll see
With 7.1 around the corner it might be handy to tell what you need to do in order to upgrade.
First of all you need to understand that I am in no way responsible for the actions you are doing on your system. I can give an advise, but if there is one typo somewhere it could trash your system. That is the case now, and it will forever be as long as there are computers
That said: Do you know what kind of user you are?
Did you install via the CD and never heared about CVSup? SVN? and things like that?
Then FreeBSD-update (/usr/sbin/freebsd-update) is the thing for you!
It’s the most simple way to upgrade from a previous -RELEASE (or Security branch) to the current one. Do note that -STABLE or -RC’s are not taken into account and cannot be used to upgrade to 7.1-RELEASE.
In order for you to upgrade please use : /usr/sbin/freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade && /usr/sbin/freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE install
After this the system will tell you:
Kernel updates have been installed. Please reboot and run
“/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install” again to finish installing updates.
(Thanks richard for the information):
Voila, you will be running 7.1 now!
For people using CVSup: replace the RELENG_7_0 part with RELENG_7_1 (it’s ok if there are other things behind it, as long as you change the zero to a one (0 -> 1)).
Rebuild your kernel as you probably did many times before (cd /usr/src && make buildworld && make buildkernel && make installkernel [reboot in single user mode] mergemaster -p && make installworld && make delete-old && mergemaster [reboot] make delete-old-libs (be careful that ports and things do not depend on older versions. I have been bitten by an account that used the bash shell, with libreadline, which was deleted by make delete-old-libs.. no more bash shell for me!)
If you are doing CVS checkouts you should probably do something with -r RELENG_7_1 or RELENG_7_1_RELEASE to get things going, I would advise the first one since patches will be installed there as well, the _RELEASE branch is static. Then do the tricks like above as well.
If you are a subversion user you should checkout the 7.1 release (all subversion users know how to do this) and perform a bit of magic.
[lang_en]Just before Christmas I started realizing that the Dutch Documentation Project was finishing up the translation of the (hugeee) handbook. That realisation made me translate tiny pieces of the PPP and SLIP chapter while away in Belgium (where possible without doing harm to the "away week" ). After that I continued the final bits of the translation and made some improvements for the english version as well.
I finished up the translation just before new year, Wouter Reckman, a new volunteer that helps, was translating filesystems, which got imported yesterday. With those last two achievements, we managed to entirely translate the handbook to the Dutch language! Rene did some quick fixes for the documentation and now we are 100% up to date with it!
Thanks to all involved in the last nearly 5 years to make this happen. It had been a long ride but some of the backbones in the project kept up and now we are here!
Rene started translating some articles, and I am slowly progressing through the FAQ (another huge beast); We hope that volunteers keep popping up, and where possible stay for a longer time to help us translate the rest of the documentation base that comes in handy! This is a terrific way to start 2009![/lang_en]
[lang_nl]Net voor kerst begon ik me te realiseren dat het Nederlandse Documentatie project, bijna klaar was met het (onwijs grote!) handboek. Door dit te realiseren ben ik verder gegaan met hele kleine stukjes van het PPP en SLIP hoofdstuk, terwijl we op vakantie waren in belgie (zonder natuurlijk de sfeer aan te tasten). Erna ben ik doorgegaan met de restanten van de vertaling en heb ik zelfs wat engelse verbeteringen opgevoerd.
Net voor nieuw jaar heb ik de vertaling afgerond, terwijl Wouter Reckman, een nieuwe vrijwilliger die ons helpt, bezig was met het vertalen van 'filesystems', welke gisteren geimporteerd is. Met deze laatste twee resultaten is het gehele Nederlandse handboek vertaald! Rene heeft nog wat snelle fixes voor de documentatie doorgevoerd, waardoor we nu 100% up to date zijn!
Iedereen die de afgelopen tijd geholpen heeft (in de afgelopen 5 jaar) bedankt! Het is een lange rit geweest, maar de ruggengraat van het team heeft het gehouden waardoor we nu op deze plek kunnen staan.
Rene is ondertussen begonnen met het vertalen van wat artikelen en ik ben langzaam aan het verder gaan met de FAQ (nog een groot beest); we hopen dat er steeds vrijwilligers zullen blijven komen of zelfs voor langere tijd zodat we de rest van de documentatie kunnen vertalen welke nuttig kunnen zijn! Dit is een schitterend begin van 2009![/lang_nl]
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