FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-14:31.ntp

[Leif Pedersen]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 12:50 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des at des.no> wrote:

> Leif Pedersen <bilbo at hobbiton.org> writes:
> >     # env UNAME_r=10.1-RELEASE freebsd-update -b /j/test upgrade
> >     freebsd-update: Release target must be specified via -r option.
>
> This doesn't work because you didn't specify the target.
>
> >     # freebsd-update -b /j/test -r 10.1 upgrade
> >     freebsd-update: Cannot upgrade from 10.1-RELEASE to itself
>
> This doesn't work because you didn't specify the correct starting point.
> You have to set UNAME_r to what the jail is currently running.


Oh very good, thank you. (I misunderstood what UNAME_r means; now I see the
correlation to "uname -r".) For any onlookers, the following worked for me:

env UNAME_r=10.0-RELEASE freebsd-update -b /j/test -r 10.1 upgrade

# work through merging etc

env UNAME_r=10.0-RELEASE freebsd-update -b /j/test -r 10.1 install

# ignore the message to reboot and repeat the last until you see "done".


- Leif

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