Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 19:42:25 +0200 From: Mathieu Arnold <mat@mat.cc> To: Michael Sperber <sperber@deinprogramm.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re : Going from -STABLE to -RELEASE with freebsd-update support? Message-ID: <9FA5875E253A45D5BFB0309A25AA25FC@mat.cc> 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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freebsd-update will look at the checksums so that it can download patches= , it will download the entire files if it cannot patch them, it has worke= d for me in the past quite a lot of times. =20 Setting UNAME=5Fr will make it think you have a supported release as an u= pgrade base. -- =20 Mathieu Arnold Le samedi 19 octobre 2013 =C3=A0 16:57, Michael Sperber a =C3=A9crit : > =20 > Mathieu Arnold <mat=40mat.cc> writes: > =20 > > One easy way to do it would be to use freebsd-update directly, say yo= u're > > running 8.3-STABLE and want to go to 8.4-RELEASE : > > =20 > > =23 UNAME=5Fr=3D8.3-RELEASE freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade > > =20 > > 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 pro= cess > > to 8.4. > > =20 > =20 > =20 > Thanks=21 > =20 > 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=5Fr override this=3F > =20 > -- =20 > Regards, > Mike > =20 > =20
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