freebsd-update upgrading 9.2 -> 9.3

[Rainer Duffner]

> Am 14.06.2015 um 20:51 schrieb Dave Duchscher <daved at nostrum.com>:
> 
>> On Jun 14, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
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>>> Am 14.06.2015 um 15:46 schrieb Dave Duchscher <daved at nostrum.com>:
>>> 
>>> Trying to upgrade a system from 9.2 -> 9.3 with freebsd-update and I get the output below.  Search has seen reports but not solutions.  I also tried upgrading to 10.1 and seeing similar issue those the "No such file or directory" error only shows up once but is asking for me to manually merge lots of unmodified files in /etc.
>>> 
>>> Anybody have a clue on what is going wrong?
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>> Are you on the latest patch-level for 9.2?
> 
> Looking, I am not at the latest version. Trying to upgrade to the latest version breaks things (ssh is the main thing, missing libssh.so.5 errors). Ignoring the breakage, I get the same errors. Using the freebsd-update script from the latest 9.2 doesn't help.
> 
> I am guessing a rebuild of the system is necessary. That may have to wait for another day.  Thankfully, I can rollback.
> 
> --
> Dave
> 


Sometimes, there are updates for freebsd-update itself that are required for a -r upgrade.

So, it’s IMO good practice to update to the latest patch level and then do the upgrade.
Or at least get the latest version of freebsd-update from somewhere else and use that.