Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2016 09:43:21 -0400 From: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failing to upgrade from 10.1-RELEASE to 10.3-STABLE Message-ID: <d784057a-3a15-0770-629a-3986160b15a5@m5p.com> In-Reply-To: <a791313f-63eb-9358-4874-402a92ccfef1@FreeBSD.org> References: <5942b107-349b-4a97-7f26-e24ea09079bb@m5p.com> <20161009195746.GC4560@home.opsec.eu> <d1813e22-b8bc-57c7-9691-1f6d8023d95d@m5p.com> <a791313f-63eb-9358-4874-402a92ccfef1@FreeBSD.org>
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On 10/10/16 03:04, Matthew Seaman wrote: > [...] > Most of the time you should be able to upgrade from any patch level of > release to the latest on any supported release branch using > freebsd-update(8). However there have been a number of occasions where > changes to freebsd-update itself cause that not to work. This is one of > those occasions. > > As you've discovered, the answer is to update to the latest patch level > of the branch you're already on, which will pull in the necessary fixes > to freebsd-update(8), and then you can upgrade to a more recent branch. > > As other people have noted, you can't use freebsd-update(8) to get to > 10.3-STABLE -- for that, you need to build the OS from source. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > Thanks for the further details. -- George
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