From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 31 20:57:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ACC88C44 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:57:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.15.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mout.gmx.net", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-1" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 442F71978 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.101] ([87.139.233.65]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx003) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M9s2y-1XZDkv2xsu-00B6Fs; Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:57:37 +0200 Message-ID: <54038C47.8040003@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 22:57:43 +0200 From: olli hauer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Ports ML Subject: Re: I want to upgrade an old (8.3-RC2) FReeBSD installation, but can't install subversion References: <20140828142610.6dc3b78d@X220.alogt.com> <54036B7E.4040504@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:f4g7Pw+TkaZuOGxH3CcJoklCK4hzb7Px0E9Z1YA8CdeaV8x3hgB VyEFB7C4QJpskaxIU/lk8xqslSIYY+NtQZe6o85axH6BmFZ6hvCVkPwoZs7OucDxKw2R/uG alWgMSDiYXqlZTz/Xew7cfi/lvEJ9JWF68BCkrXAW4hFj+g16CMEbEKkITEGoLSnHiAtVKM 9xDMW2PO3++m7u0bvq+jg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; Cc: Torfinn Ingolfsen 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: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:57:40 -0000 On 2014-08-31 22:38, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:37 PM, olli hauer wrote: >> >> Hm, do you mean update with subversion to 8.4-stable or 8.4-current? > > Yes, and 8.4-stable. There is no 8.4-current. > >> Unless you have a non default kernel there is no need to rebuild to get 8.4-stable, just run `freebsd-update fetch install' without '-r ...' and you are done. > > Ok. Old habits came into play; I've always updated my FreeBSD systems > via source. It is that freebsd-update which is new to me... > > >> Rebuilding the system from source can break freebsd-update specially if build with custom optimizations (-O...) > > Noted. In my case, using freebsd-update was only to get out of the > "ports tree suddenly not supported" situation I got into. > >> Anyway good to hear you managed to get your system to a supported release. > > Yes. :) > If you have the time / resources setup a small test jail/vm with an older release to play with freebsd-update try it out. In case there is a security update or other fix for stable freebsd-update will lift your system with one or two commands to the new stable version. freebsd-update updates not only the OS but also /usr/src Once you've done that you will love it. PS: After using freebsd-update the directory "/var/db/freebsd-update" and your system is running stable you can cleanup everything inside "/var/db/freebsd-update" to save some space. -- olli