From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 15:02:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B8DBD308 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x22a.google.com (mail-la0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3DF533DD5 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f42.google.com with SMTP id pi18so57998lab.1 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:02:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=Bxf9febU9p20HRS3Zqted3WwrF+27lB/5qpUoetn+Y0=; b=Cta6jUfm5mbzHc3s5kw+zspZM1DeunnRWmKyNWyLDg7VCfQf2yvkNAXOZ4VjbyApv5 mWVWFPpBX3GRbwDvjmXbfePE8j/8WSASKwQYtpyyyqJOy5RhY4ESUQVuijXp3cZ1/ilL 8qc7zcl9NQOMqR2glczgMNR68FP9C1b1890KGMUp3Tt+QUy7zN+3qu7SF2KsvgPgvrJQ US/s0Hij/QJAf42nkaHI+OiuD/QOI1Wcr+s4Z5sA2tEWL1OWoEAXvvxfvSh3ljJYs8// Pc6f2tD3VnSNNTcZM164qXPXLCsiyv4oNx20AZ1p2FPRmONxq53uKqQWtMoPHTETaUkN pvnQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.76.230 with SMTP id n6mr29541748lbw.8.1409151736151; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:02:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.24.196 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:02:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <53FCF9D5.6030904@sorbs.net> <53FD3ED7.9030506@freebsd.org> <53FD87CD.7040006@dan.me.uk> <53FD9642.3020807@sorbs.net> <20140827163817.4645e67d@bsd64.grem.de> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:02:16 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: I want to upgrade an old (8.3-RC2) FReeBSD installation, but can't install subversion From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: FreeBSD Ports ML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:02:18 -0000 On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Royce Williams wrote: > > Just because it says RC doesn't mean that it can't be upgraded with > freebsd-update. > > If freebsd-update was used to bump to BETA, RC, PRERELEASE, etc. then > it can be used to bump again to RELEASE. (I assume that this > functionality isn't going away just because of package changes.) > > Actually, can freebsd-update be used to switch from tracking STABLE to > tracking a subsequent release? I know that the diffs aren't on the > freebsd-update servers for that, but could it be forced, and then > follow up with a manual merge of /etc changes? > I didn't figure it out from the man page at least. Trying the simple solution doesn't work: root@kg-vm2# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update2.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata signature for 8.3-RC2 from update2.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 8.3-RC2-p0. WARNING: FreeBSD 8.3-RC2 HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE. Any security issues discovered after Fri May 25 02:00:00 CEST 2012 will not have been corrected. HTH -- Regards, Torfinn