Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:47:53 -0800 From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: Clifton Royston <cliftonr@lava.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Accidentally aborted upgrade via freebsd-update - how to recover? Message-ID: <20101227224752.GC1505@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20101227224426.GA11955@lava.net> References: <20101227224426.GA11955@lava.net>
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:44:26PM -1000, Clifton Royston thus spake: > OK, so I'm a late adopter - up til now I've always upgraded FreeBSD >machines from source or picking the update from a CD, but I decided to >try freebsd-update to finally get my home machine from 6.4 to 7.1 (and >thence hopefully to 8.1). > > Everything went well up through the merge steps, until I noticed a >merge I had forgotten to resolve in /etc/hosts.allow, so at the >"Does this look reasonable (y/n)?" prompt I answered 'n', thinking that >would put me back into the editor. > > Instead it dumped me to the command line and aborted the update >completely. > > How can I continue from here without downloading and applying 29000+ >patches all over again, not to mention having to manually resolve the >updated $FreeBSD lines in a ton of config files? (Or worse, having it >try to apply patches which have already been applied?) > > I just tried typing "sudo freebsd-update install" and >"sudo freebsd-update install -r 7.1-RELEASE" but that gives me: I've never run this command for a specific release. > > "No updates are available to install." What happens if you run "freebsd-update install" ? If you haven't installed anything, there is nothing to rollback. A feature that is part of freebsd-update. > > Is there some way to resume where I left off? I'm not aware of any method to do this, other than to remove everything under /var/db/freebsd-update and start from the beginning. > -- Clifton > >-- > Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net > President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ > Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html
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