i'm not sure that's necessarily a good idea.
i believe that upgrading from a 3.x box via make world can get you in a lot
of trouble during the build process. there was a thread about this in
-hackers, so you might want to browse through there (the last two months or
so). i think the solution ended up being to build the sources on a 4.x
machine, tar it up, pass it over to the 3.x machine, untar it, and make
installworld, and even then i'm not sure if the install was completely
successful. if i were you, i would seriously consider simply backing up
your files and installing 4.5 from scratch. then, follow the instructions
for cvsup and make world to keep on top of security patches with the
RELENG_4 branch. if you want to be even more on top of things, subscribe
to this mailing list, watch for advisories, have a cron job that nightly
downloads the latest -stable sources (again, RELENG_4) and port, and when
you notice a security advisory on this list, decide whether that advisory
affects you or not, and then if it does, follow the instructions to build
the patched version of the software (remember, you should already have the
patched sources), and you have suddenly managed to patch your system within
(potentially) minutes of the announcement.
-Anthony.

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 11:34:47PM +0200, Jesper Wallin wrote:
> Hello..
>
> Well, if you have cvsup installed you can upgrade the source for both the
> kernel and the "world" (the system base). Take a look at
> /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ and download the latest source. When it's done,
> just install the new kernel and rebuild the "world" and voula! you're
> running FreeBSD 4.5-Stable without any reinstall at all.. :) There is very
> helpful information in the handbook (www.freebsd.org/handbook) about how you
> make your kernel/world and why you do it..
>
> btw, patches is for linux, this is FreeBSD! :D
>
>
> //Jesper aka Z3l3zT
>
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm steve. I have got a Lan intranet in my office, where there are
> > connected some servers.
> > In these servers are installed OS FreeBSD versione 3.4 and 3.2.
> > I'm interested to receive the patch for these OS to stop hackers.
>
> >
> > Thanks
>
>
>
>
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