Re: Freebsd-update to 9.3 from 9.2

On 18 July 2014, at 14:37, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote:

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> On 18 July 2014, at 02:02, Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu> wro=
te:
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>> On 2014.07.18 03:40, Doug Hardie wrote:
>>> This gets even more interesting.  Unfortunately I do need to makeworld =
as sendmail needs SMTP-AUTH and that requires a rebuild.
>> Then there is no reason to use freebsd-update at at all.
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>>> That is the date/time when I did the buildworld/buildkernel.  kern.osre=
lease and kern.version show the same thing.  So, now I don't know if I am r=
unning 9.2, 9.3, or a 9.2 kernel and 9.3 world.  There must be some way to =
tell.
>> The best thing to do since you need to build world and kernel is to just=
 use
>> svn and do all updates via source. freebsd-update does nothing for you. =
Grab a
>> completely new copy of the 9.3 source with svn and then build and instal=
l it.
>> I'd recommend rolling back to whatever you had before the update before =
doing so.
>> =

>> freebsd-version may have been backported to 9 with 9.3. If so, you can u=
se it.
>> Also, 9.2 kernel with 9.3 world is not likely to be functional since ker=
nels
>> have no guarantee of forward-compatibility (9.3 kernel and 9.2 world wou=
ld
>> probably be fine, though).
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> svn doesn't work either:
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> svn checkout https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/base/release/9.3.0 /usr/src
> =

> The latest version of UPDATING I get is from 20130705.  The web repositor=
y shows the latest entry as 20140716.  I have used FreeBSD since 2.5.4 and =
it used to be easy to manage.  Now its virtually impossible.  Complete rein=
stalls on production systems are just not viable.  We need a working way to=
 upgrade.  I haven't found it yet.

I finally deleted all of /usr/src and /usr/obj and ran the above svn checko=
ut again.  This time the UPDATING file shows the 20140716 entry.  I have st=
arted building the system again.  We will see what we get this time.  Its f=
ascinating to see that in order to upgrade you have to delete everything an=
d then reload it all across the internet multiple times=85

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