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Date:      Wed, 9 Jan 2013 07:56:59 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To:        Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how to change from STABLE to RELEASE?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301090754240.4348@wonkity.com>
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> Dear folks,
>
> I am happily running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE on one of my machines, but I
> want to move to FreeBSD-RELEASE and use
> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE
> but it does not find a valid repository.  How can I solve this issue
> to move to newer RELEASE and avoid staying on STABLE because I will
> have to compile/build world and it takes a good while to build and
> then may have to rebuild all the ports.

As long as you stay on 9-STABLE, it is not necessary to rebuild all 
ports.  Actually, that is what the "stable" part means, a stable ABI:

http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/stable.html



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