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

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

Hello,

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Kurt Jaeger <lists at opsec.eu> wrote:
> Hi!
>> 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
>
> Try
>
> freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade

this one appears to work (and yes, I should have figured it out from
the man page):
root at kg-vm2#  freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.3-RC2 from update5.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/cddl src/contrib src/crypto src/etc
src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release
src/rescue src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin
src/usbin world/base world/doc world/games world/lib32 world/manpages

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
world/catpages world/dict world/info world/proflibs

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 8.4-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Fetching files from 8.3-RC2 for merging... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 34433 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100....110....120....
<snip>

So perhaps the freebsd-update method should be documented as "the way out"?
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen