Errors with ports on 9.3..

[Mark Saad]

> On Jun 3, 2017, at 2:24 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Sat, Jun 3, 2017 at 12:19 PM, Howard Leadmon <howard at leadmon.net> wrote:
>>    Thanks for the update, I had the feeling the issue was from it being to old.   I have a question, not sure if you know, but I will toss it out.   As I mentioned I update using svn for both src and ports, and I am curious to know if I can actually bring my src tree up to the most current 10.x stable, recompile, and install and have it all run?

So here is my take on the update . For starters if you are using a stock binary 9.3-RELEASE you can use freebsd-update to go 9.3 -> 10.1 , 10.1 -> 10.3  , 10.3 -> 11.0 . In theory freebsd-update should allow for 9.x -> 10.x but there was some breakage in the 10's FreeBSD updates that prevented this .

If you decided to do a source build you can go 9.x to 10.3 w/o much.


>> 
>>  In the past with much older versions, I know file system changes and such make it pretty hard to jump major revisions,
>> so have a little bit of fear about jumping from 9.x to 10.x, and possibly even to 11.x if that is now stable.   I am using ZFS, so I guess that would be one thing that is outside the norm, but should be part of the base kernels now anyway.
>> 
>>  Any input on upgrading would be most appreciated...
> 
> I don't know what you know I guess, but it should work following these instructions:
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> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html
> 
> or these:
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> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading.html
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> or these:
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> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/11.0R/installation.html
> 
> It is probably wise to make a backup and do a test first.
> 
> -- 
> Adam