freebsd stable - Oct 2016 - Failing to upgrade from 10.1-RELEASE to 10.3-STABLE

On 10/09/16 15:57, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>> What am I doing wrong?  (I get the same failure attempting to upgrade
>> to 10.1-RELEASE and 10.2-RELEASE.)                         -- George
> 
> Ah, one thing:
> 
> Please do update to the latest 10.1-REL patch level, first.
> 
After upgrading to the latest 10.1-RELEASE:

I can update to 10.3-RELEASE, and that will probably do for now.
Should it have worked to update from 10.1-RELEASE to 10.3-STABLE
directly?  If I decide to upgrade from 10.3-RELEASE to 10.3-STABLE
later on, should I expect that to work?                   -- George

If I decide to upgrade from 10.3-RELEASE to 10.3-STABLE
> later on, should I expect that to work?                   -- George
> _
No. Freebsd-update is only for binary updates. Stable and head are where
you build from source and therefore, freebsd-update doesn't work.

On 09/10/2016 23:56, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 10/09/16 15:57, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?  (I get the same failure attempting to
upgrade
>>> to 10.1-RELEASE and 10.2-RELEASE.)                         --
George
>>
>> Ah, one thing:
>>
>> Please do update to the latest 10.1-REL patch level, first.
>>
> After upgrading to the latest 10.1-RELEASE:
> 
> I can update to 10.3-RELEASE, and that will probably do for now.
> Should it have worked to update from 10.1-RELEASE to 10.3-STABLE
> directly?  If I decide to upgrade from 10.3-RELEASE to 10.3-STABLE
> later on, should I expect that to work?                   -- George
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


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