Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2016 15:26:20 +0200 From: Aymeric Mansoux <am-lists@bleu255.com> To: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade path from 11.0-PRERELEASE (src) to 11.0-RELEASE-p1 (binary) Message-ID: <20161015132620.GA1599@tartorium.Home> In-Reply-To: <CAOc73CBraJVhgUhj0gYMYrgqCwFPPTtjq7Y2jxegJ6YXZNAPrg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20161011182348.GA1507@treefort> <CAOc73CBraJVhgUhj0gYMYrgqCwFPPTtjq7Y2jxegJ6YXZNAPrg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi Ben, list, Ben Woods said : > > On one of my machines I have been tracking FreeBSD via stable/10. > > When the stable/11 branch was created, I started to follow it. > > Everything was fine. > > > > However, at some point I decided that I was not making anything > > significant enough to justify compiling from source and stopped `svn > > update` (at r305361, 11.0-PRERELEASE), waiting for 11.0-RELEASE > > images to be available. > > > > I naively tried to run `freebsd-update fetch` but of course > > 11.0-PRERELEASE is unknown at update.freebsd.org so nothing is fetched, > > and I'm stuck not knowing what to do next. > > > > Is there anyway I can still keep my current system and upgrade to the > > pre-compiled 11.0-RELEASE-p1 without going through a full installation? > > You could do a source based update to 11-RELEASE. It would avoid a full > install. Yes, I can 'svn update` and it will work fine, but I was trying to avoid doing that, as the machine is an x61 laptop (core 2 duo 2.0GHz-ish) and it does take a bit of time. Also, unless I'm doing something wrong, it seems compiling 11.0 takes much much more time than it used to, on the same machine, with 10.x sources. > However, you might find it quicker to backup and then do a new binary > install. If you use ZFS boot environments, you could just install the new > 11-RELEASE into a new boot environment, and recover your config files from > the old boot environment after reboot. Ah, I guess that would be one more argument to use ZFS eventually, as I do not use it ATM on this machine, so I'd have to follow a possibly more time consuming manual backup/install process. Need to sleep over this, looks like there are no quick answer to the problem unfortunately. Thanks! a. -- https://bleu255.com/~aymeric
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