Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:52:01 +0000 From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Matthew Seaman" <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Is it possible to update from CURRENT to RELEASE ? Message-ID: <VI1PR02MB1200D9968C4A82138751BB40F6190@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <b31f4d35-3de0-5014-679a-61c4fe84e9d4@FreeBSD.org> References: <VI1PR02MB1200606AF0C12049D061611AF6190@VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com> <b31f4d35-3de0-5014-679a-61c4fe84e9d4@FreeBSD.org>
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> On 18/04/2017 08:05, Manish Jain wrote: >> I am running FreeBSD 12-CURRENT (amd64) for experimental purposes. >> >> I noticed at the time 11-RELEASE was announced that FreeBSD documented >> how to use freebsd-upgrade to update from 10.x to 11. >> >> I wish to find out whether it would be possible, when 12-RELEASE is >> available, to move from CURRENT to RELEASE ? >=20 > I'm pretty sure this will be possible, but the mechanism will almost > certainly have changed. By the time 12-CURRENT becomes 12.0-STABLE I > expect that we will have moved onto packaged base. >=20 > You can already build a packaged 12-CURRENT. See > https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase for details. >=20 > Given that, the essentials of the process to upgrade to 12.0-RELEASE > would be to add a repo.conf that points at the standard 12.0-RELEASE > repository, and then type 'pkg upgrade' Incidentally, is this fairly weird-looking hack possible : move from=20 12-CURRENT to 11.1-RELEASE ? Thanks Manish Jain
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