Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 14:37:24 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd-update to 9.3 from 9.2 Message-ID: <FD3DC529-BB02-4EE2-8F09-179125D832FE@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <53C8E2A7.6000000@my.hennepintech.edu> References: <4CA0146F-BD4E-4613-9050-DB0C1FDB7EA4@lafn.org> <53C8B7A2.1060504@my.hennepintech.edu> <494D0D9E-ED60-4187-ABCF-8E18CDEAB911@lafn.org> <53C8E2A7.6000000@my.hennepintech.edu>
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On 18 July 2014, at 02:02, Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> wrote: > On 2014.07.18 03:40, Doug Hardie wrote: >> This gets even more interesting. Unfortunately I do need to makeworld as sendmail needs SMTP-AUTH and that requires a rebuild. > Then there is no reason to use freebsd-update at at all. > >> That is the date/time when I did the buildworld/buildkernel. kern.osrelease and kern.version show the same thing. So, now I don't know if I am running 9.2, 9.3, or a 9.2 kernel and 9.3 world. There must be some way to tell. > The best thing to do since you need to build world and kernel is to just use > svn and do all updates via source. freebsd-update does nothing for you. Grab a > completely new copy of the 9.3 source with svn and then build and install it. > I'd recommend rolling back to whatever you had before the update before doing so. > > freebsd-version may have been backported to 9 with 9.3. If so, you can use it. > Also, 9.2 kernel with 9.3 world is not likely to be functional since kernels > have no guarantee of forward-compatibility (9.3 kernel and 9.2 world would > probably be fine, though). > svn doesn't work either: svn checkout https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/release/9.3.0 /usr/src The latest version of UPDATING I get is from 20130705. The web repository shows the latest entry as 20140716. I have used FreeBSD since 2.5.4 and it used to be easy to manage. Now its virtually impossible. Complete reinstalls on production systems are just not viable. We need a working way to upgrade. I haven't found it yet.
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