Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 16:57:50 +0200 From: Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de> To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Going from -STABLE to -RELEASE with freebsd-update support? Message-ID: <y9l1u3hmhox.fsf@deinprogramm.de> In-Reply-To: <83FF91088F9ADFD31D4A912B@atuin.in.mat.cc> (Mathieu Arnold's message of "Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:56:16 %2B0200") References: <y9lr4bhmnu7.fsf@deinprogramm.de> <83FF91088F9ADFD31D4A912B@atuin.in.mat.cc>
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Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> writes: > 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. Thanks! Last I checked, freebsd-update looked at the actual files and their checksums, and would refuse to run if it doesn't find what it expects. Will setting UNAME_r override this? -- Regards, Mike
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