Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:57:10 -0600 From: "Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com> Cc: alasdair@iprimus.com.au, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems Message-ID: <BAY122-F397C3CA50D55B63B82D722BA1D0@phx.gbl>
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(-K JohnNy wrote: >>Ok I see. How do I update from 6.3 STABLE to 7.0 STABLE ? I imagine there >>is a tool for that? Short of down loading the iso files and doing it from >>discs. > >Don't know if there is a tool for this, but the usual way is to make a >RELENG-7 supfile, csup the 7-STABLE sources and build them. More on >this subject in the handbook. >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html > >>Thanks for your patience!! >> >>Regards, >> >>Alasdair This is correct. The tool freebsd-update may be used to update between releases (and release candidates) with binaries, but not between the development trees. -Steve
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