13.0-RELEASE-BETA4

[Antonio Olivares]

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 10:24 PM David Christensen
<dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/1/21 5:35 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > On Monday, March 1, 2021, LuMiWa wrote:
> >> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 16:04:45 -0600
> >> Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear kind FreeBSD users,
> >>>
> >>> how to we update from source to 13.0-RELEASE-BETA4?
> >>>
> >>> I tried with freebsd-fetch -r upgrade 13.0-RELEASE-BETA4
> >>> but it fails to start.
> >>> now I can login, but system is not working correctly.  I tried to
> >>> rollback, and rerun command but it fails.
>
> > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-snapshots/2021-February/000826.html
>
> > Thank you Sir, I have tried
> > # freebsd-update -r upgrade 13.0-RELEASE-BETA4
> >
> > But it did not work.  I wanted to fix my broken installation from source.
> > But there was a move to git? I have not done source updates since 8.2/9.0
> > -RELEASE
>
>
> I want a FreeBSD version that "just works", so I use 12.2-RELEASE.
> Follow the links to download a suitable installer from here:
>
>      https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.2R/announce/
>
>
> 13.0-BETA4 is still under development.  If you want to help test it,
> follow the link provided by LuMiWa and download a suitable installer
> from here:
>
>      https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/ISO-IMAGES/13.0/
>
>
> Burn your chosen installer to media:
>
>      https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-
> pre
>
>
> Backup the system in question, remove the system drive, install a blank
> system drive, and do a fresh install.
>
>
> Select the components you want during installation, such as "src" and/or
> "ports":
>
>      https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#using-bsdinstall
>
>
> Once FreeBSD is installed, use freebsd-update(8) to keep FreeBSD up to date:
>
>
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate
>
>
> David
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@all who have replied
The new commands to build from source are no longer svn/svn lite
we now need to use git.
I have a working 12.2-RELEASE-amd64-p4 machine fully updated.
I have nuked the installation and installed from media 13.0-BETA4 and
it is indeed faster, snappier and working well.
After some testing.  I have found that
icedtea-web java plugin that should open Java Web Start
does not open an online gradebook that I need to use.  This used to
work and does not anymore.  This also does not work on
FreeBSD-12.0-RELEASE-amd64-p4 fully updated.  I do not know why, and
how to troubleshoot it :(

Thanks 4 your help/advice


Antonio