Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:13:58 +0800 From: Jov <amutu@amutu.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Is it possible to update from CURRENT to RELEASE ? Message-ID: <CADyrUxMHX-D%2BfDO%2BnvNMR0rYfn=XG_vT_SWzScByY%2BYnPeW-XQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20170418121023.650ac308.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <VI1PR02MB1200606AF0C12049D061611AF6190@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <b31f4d35-3de0-5014-679a-61c4fe84e9d4@FreeBSD.org> <VI1PR02MB1200D9968C4A82138751BB40F6190@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <20170418121023.650ac308.freebsd@edvax.de>
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hello ,try: setenv UNAME_r 10.3-RELEASE freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade 2017-04-18 18:10 GMT+08:00 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>: > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:52:01 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: >> > On 18/04/2017 08:05, Manish Jain wrote: >> >> I am running FreeBSD 12-CURRENT (amd64) for experimental purposes. >> >> >> >> I noticed at the time 11-RELEASE was announced that FreeBSD documented >> >> how to use freebsd-upgrade to update from 10.x to 11. >> >> >> >> I wish to find out whether it would be possible, when 12-RELEASE is >> >> available, to move from CURRENT to RELEASE ? >> > >> > I'm pretty sure this will be possible, but the mechanism will almost >> > certainly have changed. By the time 12-CURRENT becomes 12.0-STABLE I >> > expect that we will have moved onto packaged base. >> > >> > You can already build a packaged 12-CURRENT. See >> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase for details. >> > >> > Given that, the essentials of the process to upgrade to 12.0-RELEASE >> > would be to add a repo.conf that points at the standard 12.0-RELEASE >> > repository, and then type 'pkg upgrade' >> >> >> Incidentally, is this fairly weird-looking hack possible : move from >> 12-CURRENT to 11.1-RELEASE ? > > That is something you'd probably do from source. That kind of > downgrade should be possible that way. Check out the sources > for FreeBSD 11.1 and follow the instructions in the comment > header of /usr/src/Makefile. However, I don't exactly know > if "make delete-old" does what it says on the can, maybe it > should read "make delete-new"... ;-) > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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