First Rolling Release Upgrade Available
Kris has announced the availability of the first rolling release upgrade on the testing mailing list. Check that list’s archives before applying the upgrade to be aware of any found bugs. If you find a bug, post the details to the list.
Anybody who want to help us out testing a system update from the original 9.1 -> 9.1-RollingRelease can now do so!
To start the process on your system edit the file:
/usr/local/share/pcbsd/pc-updatemanager/conf/sysupdate.conf
Change the line:
PATCHSET: pcbsd
to
PATCHSET: pcbsdtest
After this is done you can just run the update manager gui, or pc-updatemanager command to apply the update as normal.
Please let us know any feedback you have with the patch, so we can bugfix and improve it.
Known Issues:
Once the desktop is re-installed, there is a bug in the online update tray notifier which isn’t showing if new packages are available. I’m currently investigating.
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Comments (52)
Awesome, Thank you!
You’re welcome. Enjoy!
The sysupdate.com shows PATCHSET:updates not pcbsd. Shall i still change it to :pcbsdtest ?
Nope, that means you are already on a rolling release
Thanks a lot. I’m very happy indeed !
I am looking to shift to PCBSD as my production system from Linux (Mostly Ubuntu and Mint). Should I start with 9.1 or wait for the rolling release? Please advise. There doesn’t appear to be much information about the rolling release PCBSD.
I have been using PCBSD as my other OS. So I am not entirely a newbie.
Thanks in advance for any advise.
Thanks to Kris Moore for a wonderful OS.
For a production system, stability should be more important than latest features.
Thanks Simon. Just some more clarifications.
Should I then just use 9-STABLE with possibly only security updates? Or do I move up with 9.1, 9.2 etc. as they appear?
This “production” is as in regular use systems in a school/ college computer laboratory.
Do you also mean to suggest that rolling is unfit for production use?
If it’s a brand new install, I’d recommend rolling release to start at the latest. You can then decide which upgrades to apply (if any) as they are released.
Thanks Dru.
I am trying the following approach.
Install 9.1 on half of the systems and rolling on the other half.
When I would feel comfortable, I could switch everything to one of them by putting clonezilla into commission.
Thanks again.
Updated 9.1 USBLITE 64-Bit install to 9.1-RollingRelease.
Success!
Thanks for PC-BSD!!
Glad to hear it!
No problems upgrading from 9.1 to the rolling release following the instructions in the announcement posting. Only minor thing was the mirror was really slow. Great work.
HP Pavilion P7-1003wb desktop (Walmart special…) triple booted with PCBSD (my normal use desktop), Linux Aptosid, and Windows 7.
Nice!
Re: your comment above that the tray update notifier is not working correctly.
Before the upgrade to 9.1 rolling release it worked fine. Now it lists package updates existing but will not install them. Hangs after “Checking integrity… done”.
However, “pc-updatemanager pkgupdate” worked from the command line. The tray update notifier does recognize the new updates as installed.
Rolling update failed (see link to screenshot) I’m confused.
Screenshot did not get linked. Can you post it again?
http://i45.tinypic.com/33dz3mg.png
I just post a message to Testing mailing list with more verobose console output.
http://lists.pcbsd.org/pipermail/testing/2013-March/008057.html
Hi Max,
I’m getting the same failure to update.
Have you found a solution?
Thanks to All,
BS
Hi!
Don’t. I haven’t any reply on my post in PC BSD testing mailing list.
Possible solution is system reinstall using new PCBSD Rolling release image.
Thanks for your quick reply Max.
I’m Not ready for a system install. The system is running beautifully right now with 9.1-RELEASE #2.
I think I’ll keep waiting and try it again every week until something new comes out.
Best to you,
BS
Quick Update:
Still doing the same thing.
BS
Rolling release update went through. I got an error saying “pkg-static” package not found in the mirror, then the update apparently succeeded. However, my sysupdate.conf still points to pcbsdtest and ‘pc-updatemanager pkgupdate’ shows the usage help, as if the new version wasn’t installed. Now I see no new packages, since the patch appears to have succeeded but somehow it didn’t.
I upgraded from TrueOS 9.1 to Rolling Release. Everything went very well. I noticed that there were some X11 libraries installed that weren’t there before. Is this normal especially for a server edition.
i was in the process of upgrade from 9. release to rolling release…
the terminal returned an error message almost after 80% of downloads and now when i re-run the pc-updatemanager check command, it displays just the testing patch and not the pkgngup-2013012 link that was the rolling release update…
after a restart, uname -a command says its 9.-RELEASE and i know rolling release is not installed… what next ? i ve also posted this on the forum
It sounds like it did finish. Run “pkg upgrade” to be sure, and it will show any remaining packages needing updates.
here is the output for pkg upgrade…
[rvc@isotope] ~% sudo pkg upgrade
Password:
Updating repository catalogue
Repository catalogue is up-to-date, no need to fetch fresh copy
Nothing to do
[rvc@isotope] ~%
what next ? do i presume that i am now running rolling release ? i did not get any success message as the terminal bailed out the way i had mentioned before !
Looks like you’re up-to-date and on rolling release! If the upgrade had not successfully completed, you would still have out-of-date packages.
that is so nice. feel relieved to note i am on rolling release…
a doubt dru…
i remember the system downloaded stuff from 4t 4.8.4 and now the system says its qt 4.8.3. means the download has taken place but install didnt ?
now the pc-updatemanager check command shows just the patch test version. when i run the command “pc-updatemanager install pkgngup-20130212″ i get a message this is already installed.
any further work needs to be done to get the updates ? i am eagerly waiting to make a transition in the kde desktop from 4.9.3 to 4.9.5 and further towards 4.10 [when available]
thanks for your feedback dru…
Why am I getting this?
pkg: http://getmirror.pcbsd.org/packages/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/repo.txz: Not Found
This happened during upgrade… are the servers still being updated?
Just to follow-up, the mirrors should be all updated now. Has this issue resolved itself or do you still get an error?
this issue stil exist. i ran into it today and the forums are down currently…
it seems that getmirror.pcbsd.org does not work.
i proceeded with the following steps:
- i ran pkg2ng manually
- i edited /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf (did already exist, just changed to nearest mirror)
- /usr/local/etc/pkg-pubkey.cert did also exist already
- i ran pkg upgrade as superuser (1 GiB to download, this will take some hours due the slow connection)
to complete the “pkg upgrade -fy” run
i had to “pkg remove linux-f10-libGLU kdeartwork xscreensaver”.
but linux-f10-libGLU still conficts with linux-f10-dri-7.2_1.
Both should be up now.
after surfing around for a solution, i ran the following command:
$ sudo pkg2ng
after the transition, i followed the instruction to use the pkg.conf.sample file by renaming it to pkg.conf
next here is what i did and the error it returned…
GNU nano 2.2.6 File: pkg.conf
# System-wide configuration file for pkg(1)
# For more information on the file format and
# options please refer to the pkg.conf(5) man page
# Configuration options
PACKAGESITE : http://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest
#SRV_MIRRORS : NO
#PKG_DBDIR : /var/db/pkg
#PKG_CACHEDIR : /var/cache/pkg
#PORTSDIR : /usr/ports
#PUBKEY : /etc/ssl/pkg.conf
#HANDLE_RC_SCRIPTS : NO
#PKG_MULTIREPOS : NO
#ASSUME_ALWAYS_YES : NO
#SYSLOG : YES
#SHLIBS : NO
#AUTODEPS : NO
[rvc@isotope] /usr/local/etc% sudo pkg update
Updating repository catalogue
pkg: http://pkg.freebsd.org/freebsd:9:x86:64/latest/repo.txz: No address record
[rvc@isotope] /usr/local/etc%
any clue to resolve this issue ?
Use the PC-BSD repo instead, as described in http://wiki.pcbsd.org/index.php/Turn_FreeBSD_into_PC-BSD%C2%AE. I don’t think the FreeBSD pkgng repos are working yet.
That worked like a charm…
repo.txz upgrade in progress now…
just finished and i had to run this…
[rvc@isotope] ~% sudo pkg upgrade
Password:
Updating repository catalogue
Repository catalogue is up-to-date, no need to fetch fresh copy
New version of pkg detected; it needs to be installed first.
After this upgrade it is recommended that you do a full upgrade using: ‘pkg upgrade’
The following packages will be upgraded:
Upgrading pkg: 1.0.8 -> 1.0.9_2
The installation will require 1 kB more space
1 MB to be downloaded
Proceed with upgrading packages [y/N]: y
pkg: ftp://mirrors.isc.org/pub/pcbsd/packages/9.1-RELEASE/amd64/All/pkg-1.0.9_2.txz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
[rvc@isotope] ~%
any clue ? on why this file not found ?
Atlast….success !
i changed the mirror to my nearest location and repeated the process …
1 GB of download is needed for the upgrade… i have hit the “y” and am now keeping my fingers crossed for the upgrade to successfully complete ! thanks again dru… was a great learning experience..pcbsd ROCKS
Glad it worked out for you!
so near but halted here…
after a long list of packages and GB of download message, i ht “y” and it halted on the first package itself [as displayed from my terminal output]
The installation will require 110 MB more space
1 GB to be downloaded
Proceed with upgrading packages [y/N]: y
qt4-designer-4.8.4.txz 100% 4229KB 26.6KB/s 49.4KB/s 02:39
pkg: qt4-designer-4.8.3 failed checksum from repository
[rvc@isotope] /usr/local/etc%
how do i resove this ?
I checked with Kris who indicates that he just uploaded a huge set of new packages to the mirrors, and it will take another 10-20 hours for all the mirrors to get caught up. Sounds like waiting another day should resolve it.
Well… with all the stuff you guys are doing out there… i know the wait will be worth… as always, thank you for the feed back dru…
best regards..
after 8 odd hours or so, i updated the repos and tried for the upgrade, still stopping at this terminal output…
Proceed with installing packages [y/N]: y
qt4-designer-4.8.4.txz 100% 4229KB 16.0KB/s 29.4KB/s 04:24
pkg: qt4-designer-4.8.3 failed checksum from repository
[rvc@isotope] ~%
i even manually uninstalled the 4.8.3 version and went for pkg install… still same output.
Sorry for the continued wait. Kris just checked and most of the mirrors are still synching and still have the wrong version of this particular pkg. This round turned out to be a rather large set of new packages, almost 20GB worth for each architecture.
> pkg: qt4-designer-4.8.3 failed checksum from repository
Have the same problems with all repository software. So Appcafe can’t install them and I’m forced to use command line interface with checksum ingnor.
See the comment above to RVC. The mirrors should be finished syncing some time today.
Atlast… my transition was a smooth and hassle free one… now i have KDE 4.9.5, and notice some increment in the GDM login options.
a) GNOME
b) GNOME [ wonder why there are 2]
c) Openbox
d) Openbox/gnome
e) Openbox/KDE
f) KDE
LXDE which was earlier present is now missing…
[previously kde4.9.3 was giving me problems with a dimming screen so i used all other alternative desks.. now that problem is removed after 4.9.5... that feels great !]
I also opened control panel > system manager to uncheck the desktops i have in extra so i can remove them… but now all the boxes are unchecked… is it coz now the system is using pkgng and i need to give cli command using pkg delete ? i wish to remove some desktops…
forgot to mention…
” A BIG THANK YOU TO THE PCBSD TEAM TO ENABLE THIS SMOOTH AND HASSLE FREE TRANSITION ”
awesome !!!
Hi, I’ve been trying the Update my PC-BSD to 9.1 Rolling Release for a while. Every time using Update Manager from GUI just fails. No clues.
at CLI
/usr/local/bin/pc-updatemanager install pkgngup-20130212
returns
DOWNLOADING: Update to 9.1 Rolling Release
/usr/local/tmp/pkgngup-20130212.txz 100% of 3954 kB 230 kBps 00m00s
DOWNLOADFINISHED: Update to 9.1 Rolling Release
xterm: bad command line option “+tb”
… xterm usage details …
ERROR: INSTALLFAILED: Update to 9.1 Rolling Release
===============================
Some system info
FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #2: Tue Nov 27 03:45:16 UTC 2012
root@darkstar:/usr/obj/pcbsd-build90/fbsd-source/9.1/sys/GENERIC amd64
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3330 CPU @ 3.00GHz (2993.27-MHz K8-class CPU)
real memory = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
avail memory = 8161656832 (7783 MB)
What other info might help?
I remove /usr/local/tmp/pkgngup-20130212.txz before each attempt.
I’ve tried several mirrors.
Does anyone have any ideas that I can try?
did you try issuing “sudo pkg2ng” command on the CLI ? perhaps if you scroll up the comments, my interaction with DRU will throw some light on your issue ?
Yes, I did. I saw your posts and I tried all that and I’m still getting the same result.
Thank you for the reply.