I want to upgrade an old (8.3-RC2) FReeBSD installation, but can't install subversion

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Erich Dollansky
<erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did not got through the full thread to see if you found a solution.

Yes, I did. In fact, freebsd-update provided the solution; I used it
to upgrade to FreeBSD 8.4-release:
root at kg-vm2# uname -a
FreeBSD kg-vm2 8.4-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p14 #0: Tue Jul  8
12:41:46 UTC 2014
     root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

and since the machine now is on a supported version, the ports tree
works again, and I installed subversion and
used that to get the latest FreeBSD 8-stable source on the machine,
and used that to update the machine to FreeBSD 8.4-stable.

HTH
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen