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)._______________________________________________
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