freebsd-upgrade

[Kimmo Paasiala]

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Andrey S. Rybak <ra at iop.kiev.ua> wrote:
> hi all.
> it was happened that i have no upgrade my system long time. Before that i
> used for upgrading "classic" way.
> make buildworld
> make buildkernel
> make installkernel
> mergemaster
> make installworld
>
> But in current moment as i can see the upgrading is totally changed. As i
> understand commands sequence is next:
> #freebsd-update fetch
> #freebsd-update install
> #freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE (9.1 for example)
> #freebsd-update install
> #reboot
> #freebsd-update install
> #freebsd-update install
> #reboot
>
> i have 9.0-release and i need to upgrade it. Is it correct way? i am not
> comfortable with freebsd-update command thats why i had asked this simple
> question. help please.
> Thanks in advance
> _______________________________________________
>

The "classic" way is still the preferable way if that's more
comfortable for you. Updating hasn't changed in any way, go ahead and
use the "classic" way :)

-Kimmo