Re:_Ré :_FreeBSD_13.2-BETA2_Now_Available

From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 20:22:02 UTC
On 2/20/23 11:30, Paul Dufresne wrote:
>   # freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.2-BETA2
> results for me in:
> 
> root@dufresnep:~ # freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.2-BETA2
> freebsd-update: Cannot upgrade from a version that is not a release
> (including alpha, beta and release candidates)
> using freebsd-update. Instead, FreeBSD can be directly
> upgraded by source or upgraded to a RELEASE/RELENG version
> prior to running freebsd-update.
> Currently running: 13.2-PRERELEASE
> root@dufresnep:~ #
> 
> I have:
> root@dufresnep:~ # freebsd-version; uname -a
> 13.2-PRERELEASE
> FreeBSD dufresnep.ca 13.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 13.2-PRERELEASE #0 
> stable/13-n254363-d07eb716f35d: Sat Feb  4 19:16:12 UTC 2023 

Yes, this is correct.  You can use freebsd-update to upgrade from
a release/rc/beta to another release/rc/beta, but it doesn't handle
the stable branches and you're currently on stable/13.

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Deputy Release Engineer & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid