Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:56:16 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> To: Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going from -STABLE to -RELEASE with freebsd-update support? Message-ID: <83FF91088F9ADFD31D4A912B@atuin.in.mat.cc> In-Reply-To: <y9lr4bhmnu7.fsf@deinprogramm.de> References: <y9lr4bhmnu7.fsf@deinprogramm.de>
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+--On 19 octobre 2013 14:45:04 +0200 Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de> wrote: | | I have an old server box that I've traditionally updated from source. | I'd like to switch over to -RELEASE and use freebsd-update in the | future. What's the easiest way to achieve that? | | Will just untarring the relevantrelease distro files work? One easy way to do it would be to use freebsd-update directly, say you're running 8.3-STABLE and want to go to 8.4-RELEASE : # UNAME_r=8.3-RELEASE freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade It'll trick freebsd-update into thinking it's running on 8.3-RELEASE, which is more or less not that untrue, and it'll run the normal upgrade process to 8.4. -- Mathieu Arnold
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