From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 2 18:15:18 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E85D044D for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:15:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from asv@inhio.eu) Received: from cz-prg-mx-01.inhio.eu (mail.inhio.eu [178.238.36.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13CD1AB9 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2013 18:15:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.2.3] (93-45-217-75.ip104.fastwebnet.it [93.45.217.75]) by cz-prg-mx-01.inhio.eu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D66F96A123; Mon, 31 Dec 2012 15:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Newbie question about freebsd-update: single user mode is not needed anymore? From: ASV To: Jose Garcia Juanino In-Reply-To: <20121231121350.GA5026@banach> References: <20121231121350.GA5026@banach> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:27:44 +0100 Message-ID: <1356967664.2050.9.camel@blackfriar.inhio.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2013 18:15:18 -0000 Hi Jose, with the freebsd-update method you don't need to pass through the "make installworld" as it's a binary patch/upgrade system. Using "freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE" for example allows you to get your system patched directly without recompiling the kernel and the userland but getting binary patches from the repo and applying these directly on your system. Check the following page for a more detailed explanation and be aware that upgrading your ports/packages is required every time you upgrade your kernel to a major version (which would be your case). http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html Happy new year. On Mon, 2012-12-31 at 13:13 +0100, Jose Garcia Juanino wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to upgrade from FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE to > FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE. With upgrade source method, it is always needed to > do the "make installworld" step in single user mode. But it seems to > be that single user is not required with freebsd-update method, in the > second "freebsd-update install". Someone could explain the reason? Am I > misunderstanding something? Can I run the upgrade enterely by mean a ssh > connection in a safe way, or will I need a serial console? > > Best regards, and excuse my poor english.