On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: >> More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: >> >> There is no upgrade function. How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation? >> >> For instance, user might have built many software applications from ports and not want to rebuild everything. >> > > I have the same doubt/question. If I update the system via the ports, > do I have BETA3/RC1? or do I have to run > # freebsd-update > > to get the current release? The operating system is separate from ports. Source upgrades or freebsd-update are used to upgrade FreeBSD, while portsnap and portmaster/portupgrade are used to update ports. > Also, like is suggested, if I update by any means, I will probably > have to delete && reinstall everything in the ports. Is there a way > not to do this? Ports built for 9.x normally do not need to be rebuilt to continue to run on 9.x+1. The ABI is "stable" (unchanging).Received on Sun Sep 25 2011 - 15:16:21 UTC
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