Re: offline upgrade

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:03:33 -0800 (PST), gahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi, All:

 I have two boxes running 6.3. For certain reasons that I can't upgrade
 them online with freebsd-update utility; the ftp sessions are
 blocked. Are there any other way to upgrade the system offline, both
 kernel and those needed packages?

If you have some means of transferring `/var/db/freebsd-update' from a
machine that *does* have this sort of connectivity, you should be able
to run only:

# freebsd-update install
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offline upgrade

[gahn]

Hi, All:

I have two boxes running 6.3. For certain reasons that I can't upgrade them 
online with freebsd-update utility; the ftp sessions are blocked. Are there 
any other way to upgrade the system offline, both kernel and those needed 
packages?

Thanks in advance

_dave


  
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Re: offline upgrade

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Good day.

Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:03:33PM -0800, gahn wrote:
 I have two boxes running 6.3. For certain reasons that I can't
 upgrade them online with freebsd-update utility; the ftp sessions
 are blocked. Are there any other way to upgrade the system offline,
 both kernel and those needed packages?

CVSup the system and ports trees and transfer it to your system(s).  Or,
better, replicate the entire CVS repository to a removable disk and
cvsup the system and ports (you'll need the port net/cvsup-without-gui)
from that disk via local cvsupd daemon.

Then rebuild the system in a usual way (cd /usr/src; make buildworld;
make kernel; [possibly reboot to single user]; mergemaster -p; make
installworld; mergemaster; reboot).  Note that this can be painful,
especially for the first time ;))  Always read /usr/src/UPDATING and
be careful.

And use ports-mgmt/portupgrade to update all your ports.  Perhaps
the sources for some ports should be fetched manually, becase there
are some ports with all distribution sites being the FTP ones.
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