Going from -STABLE to -RELEASE with freebsd-update support?
Mathieu Arnold
mat at mat.cc
Sat Oct 19 12:56:25 UTC 2013
+--On 19 octobre 2013 14:45:04 +0200 Michael Sperber
<sperber at deinprogramm.de> wrote:
|
| I have an old server box that I've traditionally updated from source.
| I'd like to switch over to -RELEASE and use freebsd-update in the
| future. What's the easiest way to achieve that?
|
| Will just untarring the relevantrelease distro files work?
One easy way to do it would be to use freebsd-update directly, say you're
running 8.3-STABLE and want to go to 8.4-RELEASE :
# UNAME_r=8.3-RELEASE freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade
It'll trick freebsd-update into thinking it's running on 8.3-RELEASE, which
is more or less not that untrue, and it'll run the normal upgrade process
to 8.4.
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Mathieu Arnold
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