On Friday 07 January 2011, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Your choices are to backup and reinstall using a release version, > or to grab the latest -STABLE or -RELEASE sources and upgrade by > compiling from source. Note that last option still won't allow you > to use freebsd-update subsequently: you have to stick with the > binaries from the install media for that to work.
This has got me puzzled. I appreciate that freebsd-update won't update the sources so an attempt to recompile after using freebsd-update to change between versions will lead to trouble unless the new sources are also downloaded but I'd assumed that freebsd-update would manage to update the binaries irrespective of whether they'd been installed as binary downloads or compiled locally. My present system started as 8.0-RELEASE, installed as a binary from DVD. I subsequently used csup to upgrade through 8.1-STABLE and 8.1-RELEASE. I've been using freebsd-update to keep 8.1-RELEASE up to date with the latest security patches. I didn't see any error messages when I ran freebsd-update so I assumed that everything went fine. Is there something I've overlooked and should I recompile from source to be safe? -- Mike Clarke _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"