From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 10 12:19:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B261106566C for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:19:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk) Received: from relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net (relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net [212.159.7.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3398FC13 for ; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:19:18 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AkAHAL6AKk1UXebj/2dsb2JhbACWMI4Oc7tkhUwE Received: from outmx01.plus.net ([84.93.230.227]) by relay.ptn-ipout01.plus.net with ESMTP; 10 Jan 2011 11:50:40 +0000 Received: from helix.plus.com ([84.92.153.232] helo=curlew.milibyte.co.uk) by outmx01.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1PcGGl-0007FK-S5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:50:40 +0000 Received: by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PcGGk-00017s-H9 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:50:38 +0000 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 11:50:38 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4D26F58D.3040208@ifdnrg.com> <4D26FB50.5010506@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D26FB50.5010506@infracaninophile.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201101101150.38357.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Subject: Re: Upgrade path from STABLE to RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:19:19 -0000 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