Failing to upgrade from 10.1-RELEASE to 10.3-STABLE

[George Mitchell]

On 10/10/16 03:04, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> [...]
> Most of the time you should be able to upgrade from any patch level of
> release to the latest on any supported release branch using
> freebsd-update(8).  However there have been a number of occasions where
> changes to freebsd-update itself cause that not to work.  This is one of
> those occasions.
> 
> As you've discovered, the answer is to update to the latest patch level
> of the branch you're already on, which will pull in the necessary fixes
> to freebsd-update(8), and then you can upgrade to a more recent branch.
> 
> As other people have noted, you can't use freebsd-update(8) to get to
> 10.3-STABLE -- for that, you need to build the OS from source.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
> 
Thanks for the further details.                         -- George