Going from -STABLE to -RELEASE with freebsd-update support?

[Mathieu Arnold]

freebsd-update will look at the checksums so that it can download patches, it will download the entire files if it cannot patch them, it has worked for me in the past quite a lot of times.  
Setting UNAME_r will make it think you have a supported release as an upgrade base.

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Mathieu Arnold


Le samedi 19 octobre 2013 à 16:57, Michael Sperber a écrit :

>  
> Mathieu Arnold <mat at mat.cc> writes:
>  
> > One easy way to do it would be to use freebsd-update directly, say you're
> > running 8.3-STABLE and want to go to 8.4-RELEASE :
> >  
> > # UNAME_r=8.3-RELEASE freebsd-update -r 8.4-RELEASE upgrade
> >  
> > It'll trick freebsd-update into thinking it's running on 8.3-RELEASE, which
> > is more or less not that untrue, and it'll run the normal upgrade process
> > to 8.4.
> >  
>  
>  
> Thanks!
>  
> Last I checked, freebsd-update looked at the actual files and their
> checksums, and would refuse to run if it doesn't find what it expects.
> Will setting UNAME_r override this?
>  
> --  
> Regards,
> Mike
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