From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 08:26:45 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2F68CBBD for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from hades.sorbs.net (hades.sorbs.net [67.231.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B57B3373 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:26:45 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Received: from isux.com (firewall.isux.com [213.165.190.213]) by hades.sorbs.net (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.29.0 64bit (built Jul 9 2013)) with ESMTPSA id <0NAY00A7VIAWAJ00@hades.sorbs.net> for ports@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 01:30:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-id: <53FD9642.3020807@sorbs.net> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:26:42 +0200 From: Michelle Sullivan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100301 SeaMonkey/1.1.19 To: Daniel Austin Subject: Re: I want to upgrade an old (8.3-RC2) FReeBSD installation, but can't install subversion References: <53FCF9D5.6030904@sorbs.net> <53FD3ED7.9030506@freebsd.org> <53FD87CD.7040006@dan.me.uk> In-reply-to: <53FD87CD.7040006@dan.me.uk> Cc: ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:26:45 -0000 Daniel Austin via freebsd-ports wrote: > > On 27/08/2014 03:13, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >>> While I understandthe need to get rid of the old system, three needs >>> ot be >>> a clear path for those wanting ot update old versions. I hit this >>> yesterday >>> trying to upgrade a 9.0-RC2 system and it was a real pain. >> Can't just do a checkout on an older machine and tar/rsync it over? > > Or download the src tarballs from a current release from one of the > FTP mirrors? > > Or, if currently on a -RELEASE, use freebsd-update first? > Subject says the system is 8.3-RC2 ... so not on a -RELEASE -- Michelle Sullivan http://www.mhix.org/