Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 22:28:19 +0100 From: olli hauer <ohauer@gmx.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update Message-ID: <52E2DAF3.4000802@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <1390591900.23972.74968289.53788D17@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <lblts0$9o1$1@ger.gmane.org> <CAJ5UdcO6V_YnyoJSA=JRL_D7vFzZ8yXcKnh2QcjNQDskbpE98w@mail.gmail.com> <5F09668C-0DEA-4074-A06C-BC4D29F92368@FreeBSD.org> <201401211149.45793.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAN6yY1uiNcWPuJL=O6osDhZci_YBXe7tRW0Nt_cUy25cCTbALQ@mail.gmail.com> <1390591900.23972.74968289.53788D17@webmail.messagingengine.com>
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On 2014-01-24 20:31, Mark Felder wrote: > I agree with the rest of this thread. This is just awful. I'm basically > forced to do source based updates when jumping major versions because > freebsd-update is a nightmare to use. Not tested, but maybe this works. a) use etcmerge before freebsd-upgrade and exclude /etc in freebsd-update.conf b) manually extract the sources, then use mergemaster and then run freebsd-update c) if you have more then one system fix once freebsd-update and deploy the script to the rest of the systems I use myself a mix of mergemaster and upgrade via the (kernel|src|man|...).txz and base.txz (exclude ^./etc). Going this way since 6.x and also major upgrades 6.x->7.x->8.x ... main issue on older systems is the space required by the kernel symbols.
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