Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:37:46 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Thomas Mueller <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 or 3? Message-ID: <4E83151A.9090802@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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Hi, On 9/28/11 5:28 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > 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. > I've been (trying to) update the download URLs as the new images are uploaded to prevent broken links, though -BETA3 is not officially announced yet. Sorry if this causes confusion, but the alternative would be more confusion to why links are broken. > 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? > > Would the best way be to download only the source (src.txz), then > rm -rf /usr/src/* > then extract the new source? > 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. > If you use svn for your source tree, you can use 'svn switch': 'svn switch svn://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9 /usr/src' If you use c(v)sup, change the tag in your supfile. Regards, Glen -- Glen Barber
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