Date: Thu, 21 May 2026 21:32:31 -0400 From: Mike <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Update for 14.3 when it is out of date - not pretty Message-ID: <a3eea774-bf58-4f09-9a35-c64f9c50185e@mgm51.com>
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OK, I knew that the end of life for 14.3 was imminent, even past. But I ran. on my 14.3 install ... /usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch /usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch /usr/sbin/freebsd-update install anyway. I was then faced with a strange message that I had to recompile all the packages I had downloaded in order to go forward. That I should do that and then run /usr/sbin/freebsd-update install again. Huh? I download packages, not source code of the packages, so how could I possibly recompile all of them? I had to do a full re-install of the server (using 14.4), with the resulting hours of downtime, because of this. In my 30 years of using FreeBSD, this is the first major, I'll be kind. issue, I have ever had with an update. OK, I am not saying that my old 14.3 version should have been supported. I am saying that there should have been a message telling me that there was an issue and it would not be good for me to proceed to try to update 14.3. And then the update procedure should nicely exit instead of trashing my server. Is this FreeBSD's new way of punishing long-time users who are slow to upgrade? Saying ... upgrade now or we will trash your server and force an upgrade via a re-install?home | help
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