Is it possible to update from CURRENT to RELEASE ?

[Manish Jain]

> On 18/04/2017 08:05, Manish Jain wrote:
>> I am running FreeBSD 12-CURRENT (amd64) for experimental purposes.
>>
>> I noticed at the time 11-RELEASE was announced that FreeBSD documented
>> how to use freebsd-upgrade to update from 10.x to 11.
>>
>> I wish to find out whether it would be possible, when 12-RELEASE is
>> available, to move from CURRENT to RELEASE ?
> 
> I'm pretty sure this will be possible, but the mechanism will almost
> certainly have changed.  By the time 12-CURRENT becomes 12.0-STABLE I
> expect that we will have moved onto packaged base.
> 
> You can already build a packaged 12-CURRENT.  See
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/PkgBase for details.
> 
> Given that, the essentials of the process to upgrade to 12.0-RELEASE
> would be to add a repo.conf that points at the standard 12.0-RELEASE
> repository, and then type 'pkg upgrade'


Incidentally, is this fairly weird-looking hack possible : move from 
12-CURRENT to 11.1-RELEASE ?

Thanks
Manish Jain