pkg_upgrade?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:23:46PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:05:28PM -0400, Joe wrote:
> >>Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>>Anyway, retry the binary upgrade as you say.
> >>The binary upgrade started from the 6.0-RELEASE CD-ROM didn't work
> >
> >Wait, you were trying to update to 6.1-RELEASE using the 6.0-RELEASE
> >CD-ROM? :)
> 
> Yes, I mentioned that a couple of times before.  However, in the options 
> screen, I requested the *6.1-RELEASE* to be fetched, and it did do 
> that--except for the kernel, or actually it seems it fetched that too 
> but it was unable to move it into place.
> 
> I'm fairly knew at FreeBSD (but definitely not at software) and I don't 
> see why I shouldn't be able to upgrade an OS starting from the earlier 
> release, i.e., without having to bootstrap from the new release, 
> particularly when upgrading within the same major release, from one 
> minor to the next.

The necessary steps for upgrading from an old release to the current
one sometimes change.  The old release doesn't know all of the future
upgrading procedures for subsequent releases.  That's almost certainly
what went on here.

Kris
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