Clifton Royston
2010-Dec-27 22:44 UTC
Accidentally aborted upgrade via freebsd-update - how to recover?
OK, so I'm a late adopter - up til now I've always upgraded FreeBSD
machines from source or picking the update from a CD, but I decided to
try freebsd-update to finally get my home machine from 6.4 to 7.1 (and
thence hopefully to 8.1).
Everything went well up through the merge steps, until I noticed a
merge I had forgotten to resolve in /etc/hosts.allow, so at the
"Does this look reasonable (y/n)?" prompt I answered 'n',
thinking that
would put me back into the editor.
Instead it dumped me to the command line and aborted the update
completely.
How can I continue from here without downloading and applying 29000+
patches all over again, not to mention having to manually resolve the
updated $FreeBSD lines in a ton of config files? (Or worse, having it
try to apply patches which have already been applied?)
I just tried typing "sudo freebsd-update install" and
"sudo freebsd-update install -r 7.1-RELEASE" but that gives me:
"No updates are available to install."
Is there some way to resume where I left off?
-- Clifton
--
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Jason Helfman
2010-Dec-27 22:51 UTC
Accidentally aborted upgrade via freebsd-update - how to recover?
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:44:26PM -1000, Clifton Royston thus spake:> OK, so I'm a late adopter - up til now I've always upgraded FreeBSD >machines from source or picking the update from a CD, but I decided to >try freebsd-update to finally get my home machine from 6.4 to 7.1 (and >thence hopefully to 8.1). > > Everything went well up through the merge steps, until I noticed a >merge I had forgotten to resolve in /etc/hosts.allow, so at the >"Does this look reasonable (y/n)?" prompt I answered 'n', thinking that >would put me back into the editor. > > Instead it dumped me to the command line and aborted the update >completely. > > How can I continue from here without downloading and applying 29000+ >patches all over again, not to mention having to manually resolve the >updated $FreeBSD lines in a ton of config files? (Or worse, having it >try to apply patches which have already been applied?) > > I just tried typing "sudo freebsd-update install" and >"sudo freebsd-update install -r 7.1-RELEASE" but that gives me:I've never run this command for a specific release.> > "No updates are available to install."What happens if you run "freebsd-update install" ? If you haven't installed anything, there is nothing to rollback. A feature that is part of freebsd-update.> > Is there some way to resume where I left off?I'm not aware of any method to do this, other than to remove everything under /var/db/freebsd-update and start from the beginning.> -- Clifton > >-- > Clifton Royston -- cliftonr@iandicomputing.com / cliftonr@lava.net > President - I and I Computing * http://www.iandicomputing.com/ > Custom programming, network design, systems and network consulting services >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >-- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html