freebsd-update: from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE?
Hello, I have previously kept my machine updated by fetching the STABLE branch using csup and rebuilding the kernel. (As described in Handbook chapter 24.7) From now on, I want to use freebsd-update to simplify the process and follow the RELEASE branch (+patches) instead. But it seems that freebsd-update cannot help me upgrade from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE. Any tips on how to make the transition to RELEASE? -- uname -a FreeBSD host 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Sat Jul 25 12:24:54 CEST 2009 root@host:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- freebsd-update -v debug -r 7.2-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update5.FreeBSD.org/7.1-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found failed. Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update4.FreeBSD.org/7.1-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found failed. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update1.FreeBSD.org/7.1-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update: from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE?
Axel wrote: From now on, I want to use freebsd-update to simplify the process and follow the RELEASE branch (+patches) instead. But it seems that freebsd-update cannot help me upgrade from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE. Any tips on how to make the transition to RELEASE? You must use CVSup for one last time. RELENG_7_2_0_RELEASE is the CVS|CVSup tag you should use to update your sources to 7.2-RELEASE. Build and install that and then, you can start using binary updates... Nikos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update: from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE?
Axel wrote: Hello, I have previously kept my machine updated by fetching the STABLE branch using csup and rebuilding the kernel. (As described in Handbook chapter 24.7) From now on, I want to use freebsd-update to simplify the process and follow the RELEASE branch (+patches) instead. But it seems that freebsd-update cannot help me upgrade from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE. Any tips on how to make the transition to RELEASE? -- uname -a FreeBSD host 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #0: Sat Jul 25 12:24:54 CEST 2009 root@host:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- freebsd-update -v debug -r 7.2-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update5.FreeBSD.org/7.1-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found failed. Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update4.FreeBSD.org/7.1-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found failed. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... fetch: http://update1.FreeBSD.org/7.1-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. -- Probably your best plan would be to: * Back up everything, but particularly all of the contents of /etc /usr/local/etc and /home and anywhere else you have important files you can't recover from original sources. * csup to RELENG_7_2_0_RELEASE (ie use that as the cvs tag in your sup file). This will give you code base the release was generated from. Compile and update your system the normal way -- uname(1) should identify itself as 7.2-RELEASE after this. Replace any custom kernel with GENERIC if you want to use freebsd-update for the kernel as well as the world. * use freebsd-update to to upgrade from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE-p2 according to the instructions in the man page. Now, you'll be using a self-compiled version of FreeBSD rather than exactly what comes off the release .iso so there will be minor differences and mismatched checksums for various files. However I think freebsd-update should be able to cope, and will probably overwrite any non-matching files. In case it doesn't, your next recourse would be to grab a release .iso from the FTP sites and overwrite your system with the version from the install media. You can do this without completely trashing your existing setup if you take care -- particularly make sure that you tell the installer *not* to newfs any partitions. Of course, make sure you've backed everything up before trying this, as it will overwrite some of the files under /etc with the default versions. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: freebsd-update: from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE?
Axel wrote: Hello, I have previously kept my machine updated by fetching the STABLE branch using csup and rebuilding the kernel. (As described in Handbook chapter 24.7) From now on, I want to use freebsd-update to simplify the process and follow the RELEASE branch (+patches) instead. But it seems that freebsd-update cannot help me upgrade from 7.1-STABLE to 7.2-RELEASE. Any tips on how to make the transition to RELEASE? freebsd-update can take you from one very specific point of FreeBSD to another. For example, RELEASE to RELEASE or BETAx to RELEASE. If you follow STABLE, there is no such defined point hence you cannot use freebsd-update to go from STABLE to RELEASE. For your case, use the csup / rebuild method one more time to get to 7.2-RELEASE. After that you can start using freebsd-update to upgrade from one release to the next. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
