how to change from STABLE to RELEASE?

Fbsd8 fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com
Wed Jan 9 01:26:32 UTC 2013


Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear folks,
> 
> I am happily running FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE on one of my machines, but I
> want to move to FreeBSD-RELEASE and use
> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE
> but it does not find a valid repository.  How can I solve this issue
> to move to newer RELEASE and avoid staying on STABLE because I will
> have to compile/build world and it takes a good while to build and
> then may have to rebuild all the ports.
> 
> Thanks in advance for suggestions/advice and words of caution.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Antonio
>


Give this a try

setenv UNAME_r "9.0-RELEASE"
freebsd-update fetch update
freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE


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