From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 28 12:37:50 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E98E106566B for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:37:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB0C8FC12 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:37:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws11 with SMTP id 11so9695577vws.13 for ; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:37:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=nxOzUXqnm4O1c1496xHZfDdcqmLmZP1vBbaB/VVOC3g=; b=pmtkBkytg5kXVI/puEnaHt9INHRNuhoQpQdZOSNcorWHH+Bbf99BsK9H4aRelEPByk TwmMkA7T2Stw/FqSS4GKojUddw1JC9uR6Cgiw4JkstumumUHcURzwKoflVPjgaUmcUfJ oL5jZ7hucj3/PhhEvHiq3KnVOHkNm1oqqM9/4= Received: by 10.52.109.66 with SMTP id hq2mr9355384vdb.157.1317213467812; Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:37:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from schism.local (75-146-225-65-Philadelphia.hfc.comcastbusiness.net. [75.146.225.65]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id jo8sm23039546vdb.20.2011.09.28.05.37.45 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E83151A.9090802@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:37:46 -0400 From: Glen Barber User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:6.0.2) Gecko/20110902 Thunderbird/6.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thomas Mueller References: <20110927090655.4BBC3106564A@hub.freebsd.org> <01f0b4413a0b18e65d802bb11f3dc0b9@mail.0x20.net> <20110928093332.8961E106566C@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20110928093332.8961E106566C@hub.freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 or 3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:37:50 -0000 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