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From: Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de>
Subject: Going from -STABLE to -RELEASE with freebsd-update support?
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I have an old server box that I've traditionally updated from source.
I'd like to switch over to -RELEASE and use freebsd-update in the
future.  What's the easiest way to achieve that?

Will just untarring the relevantrelease distro files work?

-- 
Regards,
Mike