Upgrading from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE-20120505 Snapshot
A number of people have asked if they can upgrade from 9.0-RELEASE to the latest snapshot. Yes you can, if you carefully follow these instructions:
IMPORTANT: As with any pre-release, there can and will be bugs, so be sure to backup your data to a removable media or another system first.
As the superuser, grab and build the newest pc-updatemanager utility. This requires you to first install Development-Qt and Development-VCS packages from Control Panel -> System Manager -> System Packages -> Development.
# svn co svn://svn.pcbsd.org/pcbsd/current/src-sh/pc-updatemanager
pc-updatemanager
# cd pc-updatemanager
# make install
Now edit /usr/local/share/pcbsd/pc-updatemanager/conf/sysupdate.conf:
Change PATCHSET: from pcbsd to pcbsdtest
Now you can scan for updates and you should see a system update to
9-STABLE-20120505 available. Let the update download as normal, then reboot. The system will reboot twice to update the kernel / world / packages, then you’ll be updated to the newer snapshot.
As with any snapshot, please report bugs to the testing mailing list so that we can work on fixing them.
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Comments (8)
Thanks a lot Dru for this info.
You’re welcome.
New snapshot 9-sSTABLE-20120524.
I just wanted to notify that the 20120505 snapshot is only available in a few (and SLOW download rate) mirrors…
Instead, there is this new snapshot “9-STABLE-20120524″
Thanks Willian.
Well, it’s not available through update manager yet…
D0n’t know if i did the right thing, but i’ve emailed Kris Moore about this…
I just hope he replies.
Just another thing: users trying to update to 20120505 will see the ‘File unavailable/No access’ error., when using the “pc-updatemanager” command line.
Because it seems like all mirrors are being updated with 20120524.
Thanks for pointing this out. Kris has advised testers of this on the testing mailing list and has fixed it for the next snapshot.
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