From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <68a46a69df8a1fbf2ed3c4f120cf5c5b@plan9.ucalgary.ca> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] newbie question - keeping up to date Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 20:30:40 -0600 From: andrey mirtchovski In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: bee5fd00-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 i forgot to mention -- you can just copy the kernel from /386. run '9fat:' and see what's in /n/9fat (plan9.ini and a kernel are there) and copy the same kernel from /386, it should have all updates. as far as i can see on my system all kernels in /386 contain the vmware graphics device so you ought to be safe :) >> which conflicting files did you have when you pulled? > > it said that the /386/lib and /386/lib/acme files were locally > built and that it wouldnt replace them. I manually deleted > them and repeated the update. There were a few other files > as well (some .8 files and one or two .c and .h files). > > Let me try again and rebuild a kernel this time. > next time do 'replica/pull -vs', which will overwrite conflicting files with the ones from sources and save you the trouble of having to delete them by hand. just make sure you don't overwrite important configuration files like /rc/bin/{cpu,term}rc or /lib/ndb/local which you may have modified for your system (until you've set up venti, or fossil snapshots at the very least:)