From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 22:09:05 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-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 7873752F for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-x234.google.com (mail-lb0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c04::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F2FD8336B for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 22:09:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f180.google.com with SMTP id w7so78002lbi.11 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:09:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=8jzpPZ7z2A2D98Tz8MiqPxQQ0QlZZzsn8IhkhGJF6uA=; b=Q/zz8quOxK8yvBklIHQkAsiHjFRbh3QwLZsfJQ8C9QqRGAvBDS+PFLsozPnGbZFe+9 AZ+d+dzl2VYlM5yNKkLgGpJWr0Qq5fGeLOqMM7V75a3W2daNl/9Bq5YsyeaApYlyOulJ yu+213IqMoOZLUE3r9mqhCHXUDf3iJn1oO51uPZu8g9GdTCDD9pyxG/b8eEJkjR8Oc3X SJ7GxsERhxmO8GF2q+SsH4oeCQqk6Zw+DM+AsyZdv7zZlvkndiypscimOXXlVW1nKzF5 OIe2IgB3k9k2ldgSM7CEDwa+RRyzPHYWlrMYfbtkzYBKqnf270E1HziyPV3Hp82FFT4H BJKw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.210.138 with SMTP id mu10mr2254703lbc.81.1409177342733; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.24.196 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Aug 2014 15:09:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140827150741.GO9400@home.opsec.eu> References: <53FCF9D5.6030904@sorbs.net> <53FD3ED7.9030506@freebsd.org> <53FD87CD.7040006@dan.me.uk> <53FD9642.3020807@sorbs.net> <20140827163817.4645e67d@bsd64.grem.de> <20140827150741.GO9400@home.opsec.eu> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 00:09:02 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: I want to upgrade an old (8.3-RC2) FReeBSD installation, but can't install subversion From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: FreeBSD Ports ML Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 22:09:05 -0000 Hello, On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Kurt Jaeger wrote: > Hi! >> I didn't figure it out from the man page at least. >> Trying the simple solution doesn't work: >> root@kg-vm2# freebsd-update fetch > > Try > > freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade this one appears to work (and yes, I should have figured it out from the man page): root@kg-vm2# freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.3-RC2 from update5.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/cddl src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin world/base world/doc world/games world/lib32 world/manpages The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: world/catpages world/dict world/info world/proflibs Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 8.4-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Fetching files from 8.3-RC2 for merging... done. Preparing to download files... done. Fetching 34433 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100....110....120.... So perhaps the freebsd-update method should be documented as "the way out"? -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen