Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:58:28 -1000 From: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> To: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accidentally aborted upgrade via freebsd-update - how to recover? Message-ID: <20101227225828.GB11955@lava.net> In-Reply-To: <20101227224752.GC1505@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <20101227224426.GA11955@lava.net> <20101227224752.GC1505@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 02:47:53PM -0800, Jason Helfman wrote: Thanks for the prompt response! > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:44:26PM -1000, Clifton Royston thus spake: ... > > How can I continue from here without downloading and applying 29000+ > >patches all over again, not to mention having to manually resolve the > >updated $FreeBSD lines in a ton of config files? (Or worse, having it > >try to apply patches which have already been applied?) > > > > I just tried typing "sudo freebsd-update install" and > >"sudo freebsd-update install -r 7.1-RELEASE" but that gives me: > > I've never run this command for a specific release. > > > >"No updates are available to install." > > What happens if you run "freebsd-update install" ? Same message. > If you haven't installed anything, there is nothing to rollback. A > feature that is part of freebsd-update. I guess I should have realized that, at least. > > Is there some way to resume where I left off? > > I'm not aware of any method to do this, other than to remove everything > under /var/db/freebsd-update and start from the beginning. OK, and oh well... I wish there were some way to automate the diffing out of the $FreeBSD lines. I suppose those might be the artifact of some previous upgrade, so that the file version present is not the one expected for FreeBSD 6.1. -- Clifton -- Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services
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