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Thread-Topic: Is it possible to update from CURRENT to RELEASE ? Thread-Index: AQHSuBIn7aZdhN5aQUmKSqoUzyk0R6HKuA0A///OZ4A= Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:52:01 +0000 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-GB, en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: authentication-results: freebsd.org; dkim=none (message not signed) header.d=none;freebsd.org; dmarc=none action=none header.from=hotmail.com; x-incomingtopheadermarker: OriginalChecksum:BA473D2E03D1DFBB3142EC0F33D847FE8BC8E9E8C1127B3DE3542C7D22BEC9F2; UpperCasedChecksum:69C64AF6993AFFEC309E89925331D902EF473FB793394CADF304883302C78F03; SizeAsReceived:8007; Count:39 x-ms-exchange-messagesentrepresentingtype: 1 x-microsoft-exchange-diagnostics: 1; VE1EUR01HT037; 5:AinOFXzH8qPh5cueUCB/0GVQuaHOzt9VoFzLqpfnGRq7eRWCfY6nNQ0hjpz7E3+sJPDdZrD4R77S/BrxeQe+GehdqPaRsraintlthKp4JSUBiMccfQLL0kRzJlj8vB+MKCFc7anG5GYxKZ8klHrs3T70Wv/rKDV0x0IzD6YCm30=; 24:ZPARu/Sg94GuE2/bKLt7vOiehLvwGzZcQhacTqNvK8EfwGe3zR8RNvVvCkd9EzahT2sSSJ6zkKW5DdDZl9B0DYpMa/6eweG2NOz/hkV9iZU=; 7:JVQy3Fbggx/0oH+Zni6PbS5L7Gogx7aR6ObbcCYfq8PLz1XlWsLTnYKd2oynmbL/mPjKM31mbDxH2coLLZKjHj41bxPyVTccdwpXsa0Gmx6p0dGW/umr71pVfSv0PTL8HC0yB2dhbjqsY0QsPhwUnWnsNXwZBhHVYzFGFN43O1kncRZDJAMYZfUqRAmDDDRC9QnTyJ8iUsbLAZh4RE/9mtqTK8iYt76AE0H7tzzfVyUsA1q3ebM8583zISxuTheZZlEjUy0Car5Rshu6CP/wyrryaRo7+AR6nWkJfpkBlCDdTvcEG2Tr3UeAGsXp1XQ7 x-incomingheadercount: 39 x-eopattributedmessage: 0 x-forefront-antispam-report: EFV:NLI; SFV:NSPM; SFS:(7070007)(98901004); DIR:OUT; SFP:1901; SCL:1; SRVR:VE1EUR01HT037; H:VI1PR02MB1200.eurprd02.prod.outlook.com; FPR:; SPF:None; LANG:en; x-ms-office365-filtering-correlation-id: 7dbc0ae3-5fde-490e-a1b7-08d486408efe x-microsoft-antispam: UriScan:; BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:(22001)(201702061074)(5061506573)(5061507331)(1603103135)(2017031320274)(2017031324274)(2017031323274)(2017031322274)(1603101448)(1601125374)(1701031045); SRVR:VE1EUR01HT037; x-exchange-antispam-report-cfa-test: BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:(444000031); SRVR:VE1EUR01HT037; BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:; SRVR:VE1EUR01HT037; x-forefront-prvs: 028166BF91 spamdiagnosticoutput: 1:99 spamdiagnosticmetadata: NSPM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: hotmail.com X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 18 Apr 2017 09:52:01.9560 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Internet X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: 84df9e7f-e9f6-40af-b435-aaaaaaaaaaaa X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: VE1EUR01HT037 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, 18 Apr 2017 09:52:05 -0000 > On 18/04/2017 08:05, Manish Jain wrote: >> I am running FreeBSD 12-CURRENT (amd64) for experimental purposes. >> >> I noticed at the time 11-RELEASE was announced that FreeBSD documented >> how to use freebsd-upgrade to update from 10.x to 11. >> >> I wish to find out whether it would be possible, when 12-RELEASE is >> available, to move from CURRENT to RELEASE ? >=20 > I'm pretty sure this will be possible, but the mechanism will almost > certainly have changed. By the time 12-CURRENT becomes 12.0-STABLE I > expect that we will have moved onto packaged base. >=20 > You can already build a packaged 12-CURRENT. See > https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase for details. >=20 > Given that, the essentials of the process to upgrade to 12.0-RELEASE > would be to add a repo.conf that points at the standard 12.0-RELEASE > repository, and then type 'pkg upgrade' Incidentally, is this fairly weird-looking hack possible : move from=20 12-CURRENT to 11.1-RELEASE ? Thanks Manish Jain