From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Oct 18 12:15:07 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F085614EE92 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:15:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from soth.netfence.it (net-2-44-121-52.cust.vodafonedsl.it [2.44.121.52]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mailserver.netfence.it", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46vlNB3LYgz4VHc for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:15:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) Received: from alamar.ventu (alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18]) (authenticated bits=0) by soth.netfence.it (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id x9ICEsGJ066789 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:14:56 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ml@netfence.it) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=netfence.it; s=201910; t=1571400896; bh=2mO4Evs3tuh6vcrS/1Ri6NWHQiBlsmDCFCdRX7RLIZQ=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To; b=m6C5KR6xHtmeLjMDGE9zUiVmuo+VYx39a+jAmSD0YyjmKghB87V/EZjlnxYOZyHiX dogzWsUDjgnysjd+okjrRJV9JfuGyYQrwseYJIW1W8tdbtd+MwpIvpLPjQPtCSedLu 5diukW+AzKVW77NNhdU0BbLzKoJvYxMttkX20iSI= X-Authentication-Warning: soth.netfence.it: Host alamar.local.netfence.it [10.1.2.18] claimed to be alamar.ventu Subject: Re: Installing head To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20191016172608.b45d9da4.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Andrea Venturoli Message-ID: Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 14:14:54 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 46vlNB3LYgz4VHc X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=netfence.it header.s=201910 header.b=m6C5KR6x; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of ml@netfence.it designates 2.44.121.52 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=ml@netfence.it X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.33 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[netfence.it:s=201910]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:2.44.121.52]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; HAS_XAW(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[netfence.it:+]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[netfence.it]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; IP_SCORE(-1.83)[ip: (-5.93), ipnet: 2.44.0.0/16(-2.97), asn: 30722(-0.27), country: IT(0.03)]; ASN(0.00)[asn:30722, ipnet:2.44.0.0/16, country:IT]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:15:08 -0000 On 2019-10-16 17:52, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> Probably my question should have been clearer: is it possible to move >> from 12.0 (freshly installed) to HEAD directly *now* (or possibly >> after "waiting a little")? >> Or *must* I go through STABLE? >> Compiling takes a lot of time and doing it twice takes two lots :) > > This should be possible in theory, but maybe not in practice.  You > should always be able to upgrade from the last release on one branch to > the first release on the next.  Except, of course, there is no 13.0 > release just now. Several compilation hours later, I have my 13-CURRENT system running. It worked just to upgrade from 12.0. Using snapshot was a good suggestion, though. Thanks to all. bye av.