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Re: FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 1

#11
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/ "Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the freebsd-update(8) utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official FreeBSD release. The freebsd-update(8) utility requires that the host being upgrad…

So you have to read the manpage of freebsd-update, understand it, and then find the version name in another document... After a while I think that this is it : sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-RELEASE sudo freebsd-update install It would be nice if these two lines appeared in the release notes.

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Re: FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 1

#13
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/ "Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the freebsd-update(8) utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official FreeBSD release. The freebsd-update(8) utility requires that the host being upgrad…

So you have to read the manpage of freebsd-update, understand it, and then find the version name in another document... After a while I think that this is it : sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-RELEASE sudo freebsd-update install It would be nice if these two lines appeared in the release notes.

First you left out some pretty important commands and steps.

Second RTFM!

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/cutting-edge/#upd...

Re: FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 1

#17
Does FreeBSD have the equivalent of “-slim” in Ubuntu/Debian speak.

I see that NanoBSD exist but ~~(a) it looks abandoned and~~ (b) its target use case is routers, not general servers, because it creates an immutable base.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd/

EDIT: I stand corrected. It is maintained. Thanks for info.

Re: FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 1

#19
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/13.1R/relnotes/ "Binary upgrades between RELEASE versions (and snapshots of the various security branches) are supported using the freebsd-update(8) utility. The binary upgrade procedure will update unmodified userland utilities, as well as unmodified GENERIC kernels distributed as a part of an official FreeBSD release. The freebsd-update(8) utility requires that the host being upgrad…

So you have to read the manpage of freebsd-update, understand it, and then find the version name in another document... After a while I think that this is it : sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-RELEASE sudo freebsd-update install It would be nice if these two lines appeared in the release notes.

Usually if you have a working freebsd system you know the handbook exist and you refer to it for that kind of instructions.

Re: FreeBSD 13.1 Beta 1

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Does FreeBSD have the equivalent of “-slim” in Ubuntu/Debian speak. I see that NanoBSD exist but ~~(a) it looks abandoned and~~ (b) its target use case is routers, not general servers, because it creates an immutable base. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/nanobsd/ EDIT: I stand corrected. It is maintained. Thanks for info.

How do you figure NanoBSD is unmaintained? The GitHub mirror shows commits to that part of the source tree less than a month ago:

https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/tools/tools...

https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34241

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