Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:50:38 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade path from STABLE to RELEASE Message-ID: <201101101150.38357.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D26FB50.5010506@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4D26F58D.3040208@ifdnrg.com> <4D26FB50.5010506@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Friday 07 January 2011, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Your choices are to backup and reinstall using a release version, > or to grab the latest -STABLE or -RELEASE sources and upgrade by > compiling from source. =A0Note that last option still won't allow you > to use freebsd-update subsequently: you have to stick with the > binaries from the install media for that to work. This has got me puzzled. I appreciate that freebsd-update won't update=20 the sources so an attempt to recompile after using freebsd-update to=20 change between versions will lead to trouble unless the new sources are=20 also downloaded but I'd assumed that freebsd-update would manage to=20 update the binaries irrespective of whether they'd been installed as=20 binary downloads or compiled locally. My present system started as 8.0-RELEASE, installed as a binary from=20 DVD. I subsequently used csup to upgrade through 8.1-STABLE and=20 8.1-RELEASE. I've been using freebsd-update to keep 8.1-RELEASE up to=20 date with the latest security patches. I didn't see any error messages=20 when I ran freebsd-update so I assumed that everything went fine. Is=20 there something I've overlooked and should I recompile from source to=20 be safe? =2D-=20 Mike Clarke
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