Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 09:52:04 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Stable" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> Subject: Re: Going from -STABLE to -RELEASE with freebsd-update support? Message-ID: <CAN6yY1v-Y5SQ=2W8YiDdrKcfpXpwPY1hJLxaNmZ5tGUY3_-fiA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <y9l1u3hmhox.fsf@deinprogramm.de> References: <y9lr4bhmnu7.fsf@deinprogramm.de> <83FF91088F9ADFD31D4A912B@atuin.in.mat.cc> <y9l1u3hmhox.fsf@deinprogramm.de>
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de>wrote: > > 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 > Another way is to simply update to 8.4-RELEASE and start using freebsd-update from that point. I you are using svn, use the switch command to change the repo branch from stable/8 to release/8.4.0. Then update /usr/src and run the normal 'make' operations to get to 8.4-RELEASE. Make sure that you are either running a GENERIC kernel or install one into /boot. You're ready to go. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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