FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 or 3?

[Glen Barber]

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

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Glen Barber