Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:45:45 +0200 From: Olivier Smedts <olivier@gid0.org> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 or 3? Message-ID: <CABzXLYOAZ2ssicQNwh7tewsA6abJ7TBS2wRd9WGBfeD1Kep4=w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20110928093332.8961E106566C@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20110927090655.4BBC3106564A@hub.freebsd.org> <01f0b4413a0b18e65d802bb11f3dc0b9@mail.0x20.net> <20110928093332.8961E106566C@hub.freebsd.org>
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2011/9/28 Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net>: > > I looked at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ > > and found a BETA3 but only for some platforms not including i386 and amd64, but that was yesterday. > > I looked later during the day and found the BETA3 for i386 and amd64. > > Now the question is how to update without trashing the BETA2 installation with all the applications build from ports. > > I don't want to rebuild everything from ports every time there is a new beta or release candidate; that would be a very inefficient use of time. > > If I can't update with the installer, can I update from source? I'm only used to source-updating, but maybe you can update from one BETA to another with freebsd-update ? > Would the best way be to download only the source (src.txz), then > rm -rf /usr/src/* > then extract the new source? If you want to go the source way, you can use csup from the base system. > Otherwise I don't know what to cvsup to, and I did read the FreeBSD Handbook. I also read /usr/src/README and UPDATING. > > I don't want to update source to HEAD which might now be 10.0-CURRENT. I personally use subversion-freebsd (from ports) to update my sources because I have local patches, and I switched to the http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/ branch. csup is simpler to use for common tasks, see /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile. Cheers > > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: olivier@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas."help
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