From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 15:03:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0897A526 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:03:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ml@my.gd) Received: from mail-we0-f180.google.com (mail-we0-f180.google.com [74.125.82.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D79710 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 15:03:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f180.google.com with SMTP id t57so1084415wey.11 for ; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:03:42 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:content-type:mime-version:subject:from:in-reply-to:date :cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer :x-gm-message-state; bh=EER0zHbASkudcBwQFnbbXtNz5pfdtyjet3/qGLsSgN8=; b=UTlH7i/Rnfvors0cFMQULOH9ozAEw2i7WcIlx207gHjUmgcsQ6UHLFbRMU9IGKCzXj mAKckfDMhMaDVO0o4aRFCuV4GYPXFupXYDlBarZcVL6V4nz0am++MU8htmBvtQrUZEjF g4ozqBD/DgWSWNWm58jEFED5HCVX+oiucHyCVRcnkHwA3byC/qpeyMmU6B5AHVVOzK68 7lbUR1egeyQUGhokvjLjloJNs1b2vAQ5Wwh1ML8HDXs4wwdR+G9PSrmd3bjT7zzkFTfJ lmUrPoemWKaPqYNwKcqfnOLn1MDwHt0V+BMArRATHJ0Sz4Xaf2DXTqE16LbDxbIu3u+K kHHQ== X-Received: by 10.180.78.66 with SMTP id z2mr3793079wiw.23.1357743821958; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from dfleuriot-at-hi-media.com ([83.167.62.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t17sm4654418wiv.6.2013.01.09.07.03.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:03:41 -0800 (PST) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Subject: Re: how to change from STABLE to RELEASE? From: Fleuriot Damien In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 16:03:39 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: Warren Block X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl5awleP9yBz85kfHZYbyTTa2dNzkq1fcg2M9GP8hiOD7NUd6IdpketiInMa2B5AvZEJxw/ Cc: FreeBSD Questions , Antonio Olivares X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:03:44 -0000 On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Antonio Olivares wrote: >=20 >> Dear folks, >>=20 >> I am happily running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE on one of my machines, but I >> want to move to FreeBSD-RELEASE and use >> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE >> but it does not find a valid repository. How can I solve this issue >> to move to newer RELEASE and avoid staying on STABLE because I will >> have to compile/build world and it takes a good while to build and >> then may have to rebuild all the ports. >=20 > As long as you stay on 9-STABLE, it is not necessary to rebuild all = ports. Actually, that is what the "stable" part means, a stable ABI: >=20 > http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/stable.html Interesting article, Warren. If I may say, you may want, on occasion, to update the section about = csup. I'm going to take the opportunity to favorite your post, which I had = read previously, regarding the simplification of kernel config files. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/kernelconfig.html