I had an 8.2 system that I wanted to take to 8.4. First I tried upgrade to 8.4,
getting (in essence) can't do that. So I upgraded 8.2 which worked giving the
end-of-life warning. But seemed work. I then did an upgrade to 8.3 with:
freebsd-update -r 8.3-RELEASE upgrade
The first part, downloading the diffs and inspecting the system seemed ok. The
install seemed ok up to the point it wanted to edit files. It wanted to edit
freebsd.submit.cf and sendmail.cf neither of which had local changes and then it
started wanting to delete all the files in /etc. I aborted the process when it
got to rc.conf. The message was something like, "deleting file hosts.allow no
longer in 8.3". Happily aborting the process left the system unchanged.
Aside from, what could I have done wrong? My question is should we be able to
trust freebsd-update on expired systems if it says a mirror exists and then sets
about doing its thing? Can this happen in the normal process of removing update
'cruft' from the mirrors?
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