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[209.85.218.44]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id f64sm6039741oih.3.2017.04.18.03.14.18 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-oi0-f44.google.com with SMTP id r203so170967063oib.3 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:14:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.202.73.78 with SMTP id w75mr4656541oia.17.1492510458592; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:14:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.74.134.72 with HTTP; Tue, 18 Apr 2017 03:13:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20170418121023.650ac308.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20170418121023.650ac308.freebsd@edvax.de> From: Jov Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 18:13:58 +0800 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Message-ID: Subject: Re: Is it possible to update from CURRENT to RELEASE ? To: Polytropon Cc: Manish Jain , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 10:14:20 -0000 hello ,try: setenv UNAME_r 10.3-RELEASE freebsd-update -r 11.0-RELEASE upgrade 2017-04-18 18:10 GMT+08:00 Polytropon : > On Tue, 18 Apr 2017 09:52:01 +0000, Manish Jain wrote: >> > 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 ? >> > >> > 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. >> > >> > You can already build a packaged 12-CURRENT. See >> > https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase for details. >> > >> > 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 >> 12-CURRENT to 11.1-RELEASE ? > > That is something you'd probably do from source. That kind of > downgrade should be possible that way. Check out the sources > for FreeBSD 11.1 and follow the instructions in the comment > header of /usr/src/Makefile. However, I don't exactly know > if "make delete-old" does what it says on the can, maybe it > should read "make delete-new"... ;-) > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"