From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Oct 11 22:40:24 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A7ECC0BF05 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:40:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from woodsb02@gmail.com) Received: from mail-it0-x22c.google.com (mail-it0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c0b::22c]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C8C7AFF8 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:40:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from woodsb02@gmail.com) Received: by mail-it0-x22c.google.com with SMTP id z65so37121557itc.0 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:40:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=NeMdLSJGEfLqxnMx2KJyeuaVhR8uBd8Gbdlm76uzmW4=; b=ST4FyPX4i4N8cl8jCwoAeGUEfXsZKzmxvG1DJTVnJmlEesIWUq4Z7o5SEnZwDt431+ GCLNRFznlUWTTl8/k1mKatiUe6prNBxBV0NiQSSv/DVVJhMfRZpG5XUVp4wt/VxEVZwW Dtz6BR3eLQ27lVdnMFBOLILxlVlZ9brrOy5u6MusM0WXepZQZwCP6sp3BaWNOf861tAE sGzxabEAoFw6lkxpKubo2O0puafLUZ8Fjm7SSdOo2BhtAnLxecPbTKg6MsI9uao/g7bq W48V5E1rxR+8hv0qHyh6nHRZFQKj/FCVhDxA1SofB8j5/j+ctNBwoflkLqQeJrwF3nT+ 7tSA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=NeMdLSJGEfLqxnMx2KJyeuaVhR8uBd8Gbdlm76uzmW4=; b=LMf3CZIuNtyqjtDOXRQQYZozwpzQs3t/LALUfAPAndDgWZPBUW5GTWNTlvpbVZipOd KLRYvX2uA8o3I7g2+4OioM14WmNTY8LzemB97E6LNg9/u80FsB3CxKwa+tQ98ngaQ1h1 q2khmSBrn1gQ+od6/98exjPFKbA9wiXitm1/6vDrO42DZHhTiRTUugVttY3SVmgV6gNv IIKZ4j8MXzYiAGWM3tM5NJZp2c6D+RGuRALlQMNUz0NsMsU07n1vsTeX5VldD8yOsf8b Zr14m21qEqf72+g5CAVUWjTOpBixpSI5IM0QWBQSjK7lw1T9M5126Zr+wvZe2cGotiLJ s6rA== X-Gm-Message-State: AA6/9RmY7wkHsyd/ofjqXxW4XuBhQJXO4P3YRgY6NUFV63yDMNqgOtJuRYLPKF7HNW6yfuIdOQ6VctQzsXpYVA== X-Received: by 10.107.182.8 with SMTP id g8mr287423iof.215.1476225623165; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:40:23 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.79.67.196 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Oct 2016 15:40:22 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20161011182348.GA1507@treefort> References: <20161011182348.GA1507@treefort> From: Ben Woods Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:40:22 +0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Upgrade path from 11.0-PRERELEASE (src) to 11.0-RELEASE-p1 (binary) To: Aymeric Mansoux Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 22:40:24 -0000 On Wednesday, 12 October 2016, Aymeric Mansoux wrote: > Hello! > > On one of my machines I have been tracking FreeBSD via stable/10. > When the stable/11 branch was created, I started to follow it. > Everything was fine. > > However, at some point I decided that I was not making anything > significant enough to justify compiling from source and stopped `svn > update` (at r305361, 11.0-PRERELEASE), waiting for 11.0-RELEASE > images to be available. > > I naively tried to run `freebsd-update fetch` but of course > 11.0-PRERELEASE is unknown at update.freebsd.org so nothing is fetched, > and I'm stuck not knowing what to do next. > > Is there anyway I can still keep my current system and upgrade to the > pre-compiled 11.0-RELEASE-p1 without going through a full installation? > > Thanks! > a. > -- > https://bleu255.com/~aymeric > You could do a source based update to 11-RELEASE. It would avoid a full install. However, you might find it quicker to backup and then do a new binary install. If you use ZFS boot environments, you could just install the new 11-RELEASE into a new boot environment, and recover your config files from the old boot environment after reboot. Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com