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

[olli hauer]

On 2014-08-31 19:43, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Erich Dollansky
> <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I did not got through the full thread to see if you found a solution.
> 
> Yes, I did. In fact, freebsd-update provided the solution; I used it
> to upgrade to FreeBSD 8.4-release:
> root at kg-vm2# uname -a
> FreeBSD kg-vm2 8.4-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p14 #0: Tue Jul  8
> 12:41:46 UTC 2014
>      root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> and since the machine now is on a supported version, the ports tree
> works again, and I installed subversion and
> used that to get the latest FreeBSD 8-stable source on the machine,
> and used that to update the machine to FreeBSD 8.4-stable.

Hm, do you mean update with subversion to 8.4-stable or 8.4-current?

Unless you have a non default kernel there is no need to rebuild to get 8.4-stable, just run `freebsd-update fetch install' without '-r ...' and you are done.

Rebuilding the system from source can break freebsd-update specially if build with custom optimizations (-O...)

Anyway good to hear you managed to get your system to a supported release.


-- 
olli