Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 06:40:22 +0800 From: Ben Woods <woodsb02@gmail.com> To: Aymeric Mansoux <am-lists@bleu255.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade path from 11.0-PRERELEASE (src) to 11.0-RELEASE-p1 (binary) Message-ID: <CAOc73CBraJVhgUhj0gYMYrgqCwFPPTtjq7Y2jxegJ6YXZNAPrg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20161011182348.GA1507@treefort> References: <20161011182348.GA1507@treefort>
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On Wednesday, 12 October 2016, Aymeric Mansoux <am-lists@bleu255.com> wrote: > Hello! > > On one of my machines I have been tracking FreeBSD via stable/10. > When the stable/11 branch was created, I started to follow it. > Everything was fine. > > However, at some point I decided that I was not making anything > significant enough to justify compiling from source and stopped `svn > update` (at r305361, 11.0-PRERELEASE), waiting for 11.0-RELEASE > images to be available. > > I naively tried to run `freebsd-update fetch` but of course > 11.0-PRERELEASE is unknown at update.freebsd.org so nothing is fetched, > and I'm stuck not knowing what to do next. > > Is there anyway I can still keep my current system and upgrade to the > pre-compiled 11.0-RELEASE-p1 without going through a full installation? > > Thanks! > a. > -- > https://bleu255.com/~aymeric > You could do a source based update to 11-RELEASE. It would avoid a full install. However, you might find it quicker to backup and then do a new binary install. If you use ZFS boot environments, you could just install the new 11-RELEASE into a new boot environment, and recover your config files from the old boot environment after reboot. Regards, Ben -- -- From: Benjamin Woods woodsb02@gmail.com
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