how to change from STABLE to RELEASE?

[Warren Block]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Fleuriot Damien wrote:

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> On Jan 9, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, 8 Jan 2013, Antonio Olivares wrote:
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>>> Dear folks,
>>>
>>> I am happily running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE on one of my machines, but I
>>> want to move to FreeBSD-RELEASE and use
>>> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE
>>> but it does not find a valid repository.  How can I solve this issue
>>> to move to newer RELEASE and avoid staying on STABLE because I will
>>> have to compile/build world and it takes a good while to build and
>>> then may have to rebuild all the ports.
>>
>> As long as you stay on 9-STABLE, it is not necessary to rebuild all ports.  Actually, that is what the "stable" part means, a stable ABI:
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>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/stable.html
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>
> Interesting article, Warren.
>
> If I may say, you may want, on occasion, to update the section about csup.

Doh!  Done now, please refresh your browser.

> I'm going to take the opportunity to favorite your post, which I had read previously, regarding the simplification of kernel config files.
> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/kernelconfig.html

Thanks!