I had an 8.2 system that I wanted to take to 8.4. First I tried upgrade to 8.4,
getting (in essence) can't do that. So I upgraded 8.2 which worked giving the
end-of-life warning. But seemed work. I then did an upgrade to 8.3 with:
freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade
The first part,
I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with
freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did the
standard stuff to get to 9.0
perl and xdm both gave errors that libutil.so.9 was missing. scanning google and
questions suggested this
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote:
I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with
freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did
the
standard stuff to get to 9.0
perl and xdm both gave errors that
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 11:36:51 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote:
I wanted to see if I could get an 8.1 system updated to 9.0 (mostly) with
freebsd-update. I did this with a source update to RELENG_8_3 and then did the
standard stuff to get to 9.0
perl
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:49:18 -0400 (EDT), d...@safeport.com wrote:
After seeing if xorg and twm would just work, I did remove all packages with
pkg_delete. That did not clear out all of /usr/local.
You can do a manual cleanup of /usr/local, entirely removing it
and then reconstructing its
Hi,
I'm reading
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
in preparation for an update of a 6.2-RELEASE machine in a colocation
faciilty. However, that page says 6.3 or later is needed to do it via the
freebsd-update(8) mechanism.
Are
On 09/09/2010 19:40:19, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
I'm reading
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
in preparation for an update of a 6.2-RELEASE machine in a colocation
faciilty. However, that page says 6.3 or later is needed to do
--- On Thu, 9/9/10, Murray S. Kucherawy m...@blackops.org wrote:
From: Murray S. Kucherawy m...@blackops.org
Subject: freebsd-update question
To: questi...@freebsd.org
Date: Thursday, September 9, 2010, 1:40 PM
Hi,
I'm reading
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook
I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run a GENERIC kernel.
mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch
Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from update.freebsd.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.
Thinking perhaps a networking
Hi Richard,
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Richard Mahlerweinmahle...@yahoo.com wrote:
I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run a GENERIC kernel.
mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch
Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from
--- On Sat, 8/8/09, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question
To: mahle...@yahoo.com
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 10:20 AM
Hi Richard,
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Richard Mahlerweinmahle...@yahoo.com wrote:
I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run a
GENERIC kernel.
mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch
Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 07:16:15 -0700 (PDT)
Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote:
I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run a GENERIC kernel.
mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch
Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from
[random snippage all over]
From: Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM,
Richard Mahlerweinmahle...@yahoo.com
wrote:
mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch
Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none
From: RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 11:46 AM
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 07:16:15 -0700
(PDT)
Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com
wrote:
I thought I'd give freebsd-update a try since I run
Thanks for the help, I figured out the [likely] answer and included it at the
bottom.
--- On Sat, 8/8/09, Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote:
From: Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Saturday, August 8
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 11:14:10 -0700 (PDT)
Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com wrote:
mobius# dig +short _http._tcp.update.freebsd.org srv
(returns nothing)
This is typically either due either to broken SRV support in DNS, or
the absence of full dns on a private network behind proxies. Perhaps
--- On Sat, 8/8/09, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote:
From: RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com
Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 4:59 PM
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009 11:14:10 -0700
(PDT)
Richard Mahlerwein mahle...@yahoo.com
wrote
Richard Mahlerwein wrote:
[snip]
I currently have my little westell DSL router set to be my DNS for all my
boxes behind it. While a neat little box, it has its issues from time to
time. Should I at least point my DNS to the DNS it uses to save an extra
relay?
Depends. I don't know if the
Embarrassingly simple actually. I configured a new server from a 7.0 CD I made a
while back, brought the system to 7.1 the regular way and ran freebsd-update.
The embarrassing part is I took little note of the fetch output other than 24
files were updated. Can I find out which 24?
As always,
Hi,
I have just started getting into the realm of kernel building, and I have a
question in so far as upgrades.
Is it possible to do a freebsd-update fetch then install, reboot, and then
install again to get to the latest release you want to run?
Update /usr/src with sources and build a kernel
Hi, Jason
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Jasonjhelf...@e-e.com wrote:
Hi,
I have just started getting into the realm of kernel building, and I have a
question in so far as upgrades.
Is it possible to do a freebsd-update fetch then install, reboot, and then
install again to get to the
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Jason wrote:
Hi,
I have just started getting into the realm of kernel building, and I have
a question in so far as upgrades.
Is it possible to do a freebsd-update fetch then install, reboot, and then
install again to get to the latest release you want to run?
Update
I'm trying to use freebsd-update to upgrade a system from 7.0-RELEASE-
p9 to 7.1
running
# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
generates this
Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from
update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches.
hello, I have updated qith command freebsd-update
and hte command
freebsd-update fetch
shows me I have already hte latest patch level 7.0-RELEASE-p1
anyway uname -a shows me always 7.0-RELEASE #0
how can I do to have uname to show me the correct patch level ?
thanks
Rick
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Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 9:29 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: freebsd-update question
hello, I have updated qith command freebsd-update
and hte command
freebsd-update fetch
shows me
RJ45 wrote:
hello, I have updated qith command freebsd-update
and hte command
freebsd-update fetch
shows me I have already hte latest patch level 7.0-RELEASE-p1
anyway uname -a shows me always 7.0-RELEASE #0
how can I do to have uname to show me the correct patch level ?
thanks
Rick
shows me I have already hte latest patch level 7.0-RELEASE-p1
anyway uname -a shows me always 7.0-RELEASE #0
how can I do to have uname to show me the correct patch level ?
uname tells you about running kernel
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freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
On 5/16/08, Catalin Miclaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed this was solved after recompiling the kernel.
Maybe it's also another method available, but since I'm using a custom
kernel I did not looked for it.
I have the same problem here. Uname shows 7.0-RELEASE after reboot
and
I know that recompiling the kernel was a way to do it but I Wanted to
avoid it.
thanks
On Fri, 16 May 2008, Simon Jolle wrote:
On 5/16/08, Catalin Miclaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've noticed this was solved after recompiling the kernel.
Maybe it's also another method available, but
Hello,
while updating my FreeBSD box, freebsd-update reported:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
...
No updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p6.
However, uname -a reveals:
FreeBSD my.hostname.here
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 01:46:51PM +0200, n j wrote:
Hello,
while updating my FreeBSD box, freebsd-update reported:
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
...
No updates needed to update system to
The cause for this confusion is the fact that patches 5 and 6 were for a
userland utility (file) and a library (libarchive), not for the kernel.
So for these patches, the kernel (which contains the release-level
string) isn't rebuilt and so it isn't updated.
1) change the update mechanism to
I have machine wich is build from sources (FreeBSD 6.2p3 , RELENG_6_2).
Can I use freebsd-update on that machine straight away?
In the article that appears on top of google
(http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/binup.html), there is section about
removing kernel counters, perllocal.pod
Angelin Lalev wrote:
I have machine wich is build from sources (FreeBSD 6.2p3 , RELENG_6_2).
Can I use freebsd-update on that machine straight away?
Yes. If you made any changes to the source code before compiling, you
may need to edit /etc/freebsd-update.conf (and in particular, the
Ned Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am newbie running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with a custom kernel. Not any major
modifications, I just commented out a few devices which I do not have
and copied over a few items from the Notes file. I just ran
freebsd-update to pick up security patches. It
I am newbie running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with a custom kernel. Not any major
modifications, I just commented out a few devices which I do not have
and copied over a few items from the Notes file.
I just ran freebsd-update to pick up security patches. It fetched and
installed without any problems.
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