From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 25 17:31:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F3401065679 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:31:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellymartin@gmail.com) Received: from yw-out-2324.google.com (yw-out-2324.google.com [74.125.46.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB3E28FC1E for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:31:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kellymartin@gmail.com) Received: by yw-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 9so38122ywe.13 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:31:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=l1KIdxh7fkaAizfcFZiCShcF3uPPa5MYQUhWK2vu+fE=; b=jLrFRPpnpdkPoWDUR4q3+bLxJkKSWfJ4rBjwpZhiyF6NAXbuJZ91p3895MZiTxKoh+ zMHsuMdvvdo7sG9wh8+WA2k22fbmz/YuI3ZSWhgvKZ4vGsk82MPCZQznIhoDcNw6MaUm NqOvJJddaDc0JeopWySZ31lp+d0vwWPoWalvs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=S9ziFd578/X6QpYWooKqMYVahL/+HC7uVmII5HkMBkb6JHktrodJoW0PLD2yGsQILX v3vUawXfQvgg9IhxlQY29GE+gObq43q1C6FkOR37+NmPrXHuvVLNPDGXlNlFhrxtFifu f+BO1HolYnNyOmyMlD7nsp7eCz1JZMabl54NU= Received: by 10.103.160.9 with SMTP id m9mr1701217muo.53.1227634264024; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:31:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.103.182.5 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:31:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <1338880b0811250931lece9599wa4351420cd3b09a8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:31:03 -0700 From: "Kelly Martin" To: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <1338880b0811240900gf75fad4t1f7105af2e92da08@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1338880b0811181547s191b3170nefe5525f112bbcc2@mail.gmail.com> <20081119040732.GC45210@ozzmosis.com> <1338880b0811240900gf75fad4t1f7105af2e92da08@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: preparing for an upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:31:06 -0000 On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Kelly Martin wrote: > This weekend I finally got around to trying freebsd-update on 6.2. It > is there and works, but it would only update me to 6.2-RELEASE-p11. It > told me 6.2 was past its end-of-life date (which I already knew). > There was no obvious way to upgrade to 6.3 binaries. I checked the man > page and the configuration file too. Maybe the newer version of > freebsd-update allows upgrades between point versions? (ie., 6.3 -> > 6.4 ?) Well, I found the answer myself by comparing freebsd-update on FreeBSD 6.2 and 6.3. The version on 6.3 adds the -r newrelease option, which doesn't exist on 6.2... so it looks like moving up a point release using this tool is first possible with FreeBDD 6.3 -> 6.4. I know 6.2 isn't supported anymore, but it works fine for me. kelly