Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 16:25:51 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Change from -STABLE to -REALEASE Message-ID: <8d5911d8-31f2-022b-6545-468672d0886b@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAAdA2WPNfemGZSofnkFrEJ5QW6bBKSiZiw0O10F=KV2UFLDccQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAAdA2WPNfemGZSofnkFrEJ5QW6bBKSiZiw0O10F=KV2UFLDccQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 08/10/2018 15:52, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Is there a way to change a FreeBSD NN-STABLE to NN-RELEASE? > Asking on behalf of freebsd-update :-) freebsd-update knows nothing about the NN-STABLE branch. Which means that just running freebsd-update(8) is not necessarily going to give the best results. I have vague memories of trying to do what you're asking (some time ago now), and I /think/ that if you use the 'major version bump' commandline and follow the prompts freebsd-update gives you, you do eventually get to something fairly similar to NN-RELEASE. There may be extraneous files from NN-STABLE still hanging around. You other alternative is to checkout the NN-RELEASE sources, build and install your NN-RELEASE system from source and then you should be able to switch to using freebsd-update(8) -- although your home-built version of NN-RELEASE won't match checksums properly against the official release. In many ways it's probably easier to install a NN-RELEASE box from scratch and then port over the customizations and interesting data from your NN-STABLE box. Assuming you have spare hardware laying around... Cheers, Matthew
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