From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 19 12:56:25 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24B947DB for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:56:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mat@mat.cc) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (mx3.absolight.net [IPv6:2a01:678:2:100::25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C7C6D2937 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:56:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from prod2.absolight.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9643BDC5F; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:56:17 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=mat.cc; h=date:from:to :subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=plouf; bh=taWJStHNHQM SUQs8tHZWKLIvW5E=; b=NEu/OvnkQLDH0lCep7CI1j7BayThI53lCrcUstcUDg4 suC5a3uYjCiLhbk0HjGZ81W4ktwhC3tCIUovSMnK2FTzEl4KLxudP0U6S17+IqM2 n71XiTF52CnH/iU2v7zvaZp5c9ek6tj6U5Vh9uo1MkWWP3yZu5maJgt681eVpHl4 = Received: from atuin.in.mat.cc (atuin.in.mat.cc [79.143.241.205]) by prod2.absolight.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id C7FD4BDC5E; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:56:17 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atuin.in.mat.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54549C5AE2AA; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:56:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:56:16 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold To: Michael Sperber , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going from -STABLE to -RELEASE with freebsd-update support? Message-ID: <83FF91088F9ADFD31D4A912B@atuin.in.mat.cc> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 12:56:25 -0000 +--On 19 octobre 2013 14:45:04 +0200 Michael Sperber wrote: | | 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? One easy way to do it would be to use freebsd-update directly, say you're running 8.3-STABLE and want to go to 8.4-RELEASE : # UNAME_r=8.3-RELEASE freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade It'll trick freebsd-update into thinking it's running on 8.3-RELEASE, which is more or less not that untrue, and it'll run the normal upgrade process to 8.4. -- Mathieu Arnold