reason 23 why we've moved to linux

[Lars Engels]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 03:29:23PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> 
> 
> Royce Williams <royce at tycho.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Colin, adding you to this thread with proposed patch (two options) for
> > freebsd-update, below.
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:
> > >> Honest question, have you been building things from source under
> > >> debian's ports or are you using their version of "pkg"?
> > >
> > > the latter
> > >
> > > and i have two 9 systems where i try to use freebsd-update.  also a
> > > time-consuming rabbit hole leading nowhere pleasant.  e.g.
> > >
> > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE-p3
> > > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
> > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done.
> > > Fetching metadata index... done.
> > > Inspecting system... done.
> > >
> > > The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
> > > kernel/generic world/base world/doc world/games world/lib32
> > >
> > > The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
> > >
> > > Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y
> > >
> > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update5.freebsd.org... failed.
> > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update2.freebsd.org... failed.
> > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update3.freebsd.org... failed.
> > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update4.freebsd.org... failed.
> > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update6.freebsd.org... failed.
> > > No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> > 
> > Randy, you're not the first to specify a patch level in the target
> > release version for freebsd-update.  This failure mode could be more
> > friendly.
> 
> raid0.dfw.rg.net:/root# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE
> freebsd-update: Cannot upgrade from 9.2-RELEASE to itself
> raid0.dfw.rg.net:/root# freebsd-update upgrade               
> freebsd-update: Release target must be specified via -r option.

You're using it wrong.

Use "freebsd-update fetch install" to update staying in the currently
running RELEASE branch. So you just get security updates and errata.

Use "freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.0-RELEASE" followed by two
"freebsd-update install" to upgrade to a newer release version.
I admit that the two cals of "freebsd-update install" are consfusing.
The first run installs the new kernel. Then you should reboot the new
kernel and the second installs the new world.
If I'd written freebsd-update I would have called it "installkernel" and
"installworld" to avoid confusion. But apart from that freebsd-update(8)
just works...


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