Keep 10.0-STABLE up to date on SPARC

John-Mark Gurney jmg at funkthat.com
Mon Mar 3 17:08:21 UTC 2014


Denny Fuchs wrote this message on Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 12:56 +0100:
> hi,
> 
> I want to keep our old SPARC v215 for Icinga (Nagios) and installed FB 10 with ZFS RootFS. The most headache I have, is to keep FB up to date. I red some howtos, but - for example - cvsup is deprecated and freebsd-update isn't available for SPARC.
> 
> So, I actually  use:
> 
> portsnap fetch update
> portupgrade -a
> 
> (is it correct?)
> 
> But, how I keep the rootfs and kernel up to date? 

iirc, svnlite is now part of 10, if not you can install the svn port and
follow:
http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/svn.html

to get the source, and then use the normal source upgrade instructions:
http://www5.us.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html

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