Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 08:31:34 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Fleuriot Damien <ml@my.gd> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Subject: Re: how to change from STABLE to RELEASE? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301090830430.8369@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <A9402D70-4365-45D7-A186-84C8828888A0@my.gd> References: <CAJ5UdcMr3pWBSM0CPMYxzBsKOpNr7u9jn47GAU=LhhBqtLZN8w@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301090754240.4348@wonkity.com> <A9402D70-4365-45D7-A186-84C8828888A0@my.gd>
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On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Fleuriot Damien wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > >> 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 > > > Interesting article, Warren. > > If I may say, you may want, on occasion, to update the section about csup. Doh! Done now, please refresh your browser. > I'm going to take the opportunity to favorite your post, which I had read previously, regarding the simplification of kernel config files. > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/kernelconfig.html Thanks!
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