I want to upgrade an old (8.3-RC2) FReeBSD installation, but can't install subversion

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Royce Williams <royce at tycho.org> wrote:
>
> Just because it says RC doesn't mean that it can't be upgraded with
> freebsd-update.
>
> If freebsd-update was used to bump to BETA, RC, PRERELEASE, etc. then
> it can be used to bump again to RELEASE.  (I assume that this
> functionality isn't going away just because of package changes.)
>
> Actually, can freebsd-update be used to switch from tracking STABLE to
> tracking a subsequent release?  I know that the diffs aren't on the
> freebsd-update servers for that, but could it be forced, and then
> follow up with a manual merge of /etc changes?
>

I didn't figure it out from the man page at least.
Trying the simple solution doesn't work:
root at kg-vm2# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update2.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.3-RC2 from update2.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 8.3-RC2-p0.

WARNING: FreeBSD 8.3-RC2 HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE.
Any security issues discovered after Fri May 25 02:00:00 CEST 2012
will not have been corrected.


HTH
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn