Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:02:16 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <tingox@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I want to upgrade an old (8.3-RC2) FReeBSD installation, but can't install subversion Message-ID: <CAJ_iqtb2F-z9%2BQ8g=dSQAzO601iOoWFLp1GPMa4sY5-D72LhQA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BE3k92c3Ne8v0apRYNKg-oqBHfmZFyQ%2BOYLctC3Jw3AZEmR0Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJ_iqtbi2oEaKGzVjEXsxKPmE0KhUJojp8tNh8BgzoGrkam0dA@mail.gmail.com> <53FCF9D5.6030904@sorbs.net> <CAN6yY1tu5ETDzV4xWHV%2BKfCLy3SmY-n%2BPZainE3zcD_RVBSHdg@mail.gmail.com> <53FD3ED7.9030506@freebsd.org> <53FD87CD.7040006@dan.me.uk> <53FD9642.3020807@sorbs.net> <20140827163817.4645e67d@bsd64.grem.de> <CA%2BE3k92c3Ne8v0apRYNKg-oqBHfmZFyQ%2BOYLctC3Jw3AZEmR0Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> wrote: > > Just because it says RC doesn't mean that it can't be upgraded with > freebsd-update. > > If freebsd-update was used to bump to BETA, RC, PRERELEASE, etc. then > it can be used to bump again to RELEASE. (I assume that this > functionality isn't going away just because of package changes.) > > Actually, can freebsd-update be used to switch from tracking STABLE to > tracking a subsequent release? I know that the diffs aren't on the > freebsd-update servers for that, but could it be forced, and then > follow up with a manual merge of /etc changes? > 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 Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update2.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata signature for 8.3-RC2 from update2.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata files... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 8.3-RC2-p0. WARNING: FreeBSD 8.3-RC2 HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE. Any security issues discovered after Fri May 25 02:00:00 CEST 2012 will not have been corrected. HTH -- Regards, Torfinn
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