2011/9/28 Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@bellsouth.net>: > > I looked at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ > > and found a BETA3 but only for some platforms not including i386 and amd64, > but that was yesterday. > > I looked later during the day and found the BETA3 for i386 and amd64. > > Now the question is how to update without trashing the BETA2 installation > with all the applications build from ports. > > I don't want to rebuild everything from ports every time there is a new beta > or release candidate; that would be a very inefficient use of time. > > If I can't update with the installer, can I update from source?
I'm only used to source-updating, but maybe you can update from one BETA to another with freebsd-update ? > Would the best way be to download only the source (src.txz), then > rm -rf /usr/src/* > then extract the new source? If you want to go the source way, you can use csup from the base system. > Otherwise I don't know what to cvsup to, and I did read the FreeBSD Handbook. > I also read /usr/src/README and UPDATING. > > I don't want to update source to HEAD which might now be 10.0-CURRENT. I personally use subversion-freebsd (from ports) to update my sources because I have local patches, and I switched to the http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/9/ branch. csup is simpler to use for common tasks, see /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile. Cheers > > > Tom > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- Olivier Smedts _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) e-mail: oliv...@gid0.org - against HTML email & vCards X www: http://www.gid0.org - against proprietary attachments / \ "Il y a seulement 10 sortes de gens dans le monde : ceux qui comprennent le binaire, et ceux qui ne le comprennent pas." _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
