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From: Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de>
To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc>
Subject: Re: Going from -STABLE to -RELEASE with freebsd-update support?
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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