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

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 8:37 PM, olli hauer <ohauer at gmx.de> wrote:
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> Hm, do you mean update with subversion to 8.4-stable or 8.4-current?

Yes, and 8.4-stable. There is no 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.

Ok. Old habits came into play; I've always updated my FreeBSD systems
via source. It is that freebsd-update which is new to me...


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

Noted. In my case, using freebsd-update was only to get out of the
"ports tree suddenly not supported" situation I got into.

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

Yes. :)

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Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen