Ralf, On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Ralf Mardorf <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 10:14 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> You may also use at your discretion the portmaster tool? It works >> very well and a nice example is given by W. Block: >> >> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/portupgrade.html > > Thank you Antonio :) > > because I can't install FreeBSD by the 9.0 DVD, for what reason ever > this doesn't work, I installed it by the 8.3 DVD and will now make a > release upgrade. IIUC a release upgrade will rebuild everything, hence > there should be no dependency issues. My FreeBSD 8.3 is a fresh install, > I only set up PPPoE, anything else is default. > IIUC I need to take care about it to keep dependencies up to date, when > I don't upgrade the complete release, but just upgrade some software. > > So, can I upgrade from 8.3 to 9.0, without taking care about > dependencies and take care about the link, when 9.0 is installed, > instead of doing it right now?
Yes, you can do it. You can update to 9.0 with freebsd-update tool and then install/reinstall the ports. # freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE or # freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE in case that 9.1 is not there yet*? then run # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install to get security updates as is documented : http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html This should work well to get newer RELEASE, but some ports may be needed to be rebuilt/reinstalled. Hope this helps, Antonio > > My apologize for the terrible English, I'm in a hurry, but wanted to > rely immediately and this makes broken English not better ;). > > Regards, > Ralf > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
