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Ken Smith has announced the second release candidate FreeBSD 6.3 Download: 6.3-RC2-i386-disc1.iso (625MB)  6.3-RC2-amd64-disc1.iso (673MB).

Sorry for the delay with this phase of the 6.3 release.  A few glitches were found during testing of the 6.3-RC2 ISOs that included pre-built packages.
The 6.3-RC2 builds for amd64 and i386 should now be available on the majority of the FreeBSD mirror sites.  I just finished loading the sparc64 build so that will take a little while to propagate to the mirrors.  This is the last planned RC for 6.3.  Unless a major show-stopper problem is found the release of 6.3 should happen in about
two weeks.
If updating an older system using cvs or c[v]sup based mechanisms the branch tag to use is RELENG_6_3.  Or you can give FreeBSD Update a try,see the instructions here:
http://hyip-man.blogspot.com/2008/01/freebsd-minor-version-upgrades.html

More:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/039352.html

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NOTE: Before proceeding, if you have FreeBSD Update scheduled to run from a cron job, disable the cron job! Bad Things will happen if FreeBSD Update tries to download security updates in the middle of this upgrade process.

These instructions apply only to minor version upgrades, e.g., from FreeBSD 6.something to FreeBSD 6.somethingelse, or from FreeBSD 7.something to FreeBSD 7.somethingelse. Upgrading from FreeBSD 6.x to FreeBSD 7.x is a more complicated process, and I will make another post soon to provide instructions on performing major version upgrades.


As I write this, "upgrade" support does not yet exist in the version of FreeBSD Update in the FreeBSD base system, so the first step is to download the script. If you are running FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 or FreeBSD 6.3-RC1 or later, you should already have this new version of FreeBSD Update installed, so you can skip this step.

# fetch http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz 100% of 21 kB 74 kBps
# fetch http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc
freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc 100% of 187 B 214 kBps
# gpg --verify freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz.asc freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz
gpg: WARNING: using insecure memory!
gpg: please see http://www.gnupg.org/faq.html for more information
gpg: Signature made Sat Nov 10 04:38:54 2007 PST using DSA key ID CA6CDFB2
gpg: Good signature from "FreeBSD Security Officer <security-officer@FreeBSD.org>"
# tar -xf freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz

I've signed the tarball containing this script; as Security Officer, I strongly recommend verifying the signature using gpg before proceeding.

When I run FreeBSD Update below, I invoke it as sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf in order to use this new version of FreeBSD Update and its associated configuration file; if you skiped the above step because you're already running 7.0-RC1 or 6.3-RC1 or later, you can just invoke it as freebsd-update.

This system is presently running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8, and I'm upgrading it to FreeBSD 6.3-BETA1; obviously, if you're reading this at some point in the future and want to upgrade to something other than FreeBSD 6.3-BETA1, you should change "6.3-BETA1" below and the output from the script will be correspondingly different.

# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-BETA1 upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 6.2-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/smp src/base src/bin src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games
src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue
src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin
world/base world/info world/lib32 world/manpages

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
kernel/generic world/catpages world/dict world/doc world/games
world/proflibs

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Here FreeBSD Update is looking at the system and deciding which parts of FreeBSD you have installed -- obviously if you don't have the docs (documentation) from FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE installed you aren't likely to want to have the docs from FreeBSD 6.3-BETA1 installed after upgrading.

Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-BETA1 from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 5088 patches.....10....20 ... 5070....5080.... done.
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 550 files... done.

The following files will be removed as part of updating to 6.3-BETA1-p0:
/usr/share/examples/netgraph/bluetooth/rc.bluetooth
/usr/share/info/bzip2.info.gz
...
/var/named/etc/namedb/PROTO.localhost.rev
/var/named/etc/namedb/make-localhost

The following files will be added as part of updating to 6.3-BETA1-p0:
/boot/kernel/coretemp.ko
/boot/kernel/if_cxgb.ko
...
/var/named/etc/namedb/master/localhost-forward.db
/var/named/etc/namedb/master/localhost-reverse.db

The following files will be updated as part of updating to 6.3-BETA1-p0:
/COPYRIGHT
/bin/[
...
/usr/src/usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.5
/var/named/etc/namedb/named.conf

FreeBSD Update has downloaded all of the files needed to upgrade to the new release. You probably don't want to read through all the thousands of files which are being removed, added, or updated, but the lists are printed (and piped through more(1)) just in case.

Assuming you're satisfied that FreeBSD Update has got things right, you can tell it to go ahead and install:

# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install
Installing updates...
Kernel updates have been installed. Please reboot and run
"freebsd-update.sh install" again to finish installing updates.

When upgrading to a new FreeBSD release, it's important to make sure that you are running the new kernel before you install the new non-kernel components -- otherwise there's a chance of things breaking horribly when programs try to use features which the old kernel doesn't understand. When FreeBSD Update asks you to reboot before continuing, do what it says!

# shutdown -r now

After the system reboots, you can log in again and tell FreeBSD Update to finish the upgrade; and then finally reboot a second time so that you'll have the new versions of system daemons (e.g., sshd(8)) running:

# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf install
Installing updates... done.
# shutdown -r now

Finally, if you disabled a FreeBSD Update cron job before starting this process, don't forget to turn it back on.

All told, this upgrade took me about 15 minutes -- it's fast enough that there's really no excuse for not upgrading every time a new BETA or RC (release candidate) is released.

source:daemonology.net/blog/

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Ken Smith has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 7.0 Download: 7.0-RC1-i386-disc1.iso (510MB, MD5) 7.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso (501MB, MD5)

Sorry for the delay with this next phase of the release process.  The ports team has gotten the release package sets built for most of the architectures (sparc64 is still a long way off) so we have begun including the pre-built packages on the ISOs.  Even a very basic post-build test turned up one latent bug in sysinstall, and once that was fixed a more extensive test (load both kde and gnome) turned up two more latent bugs.  Releases are the only time sysinstall/package stuff ever gets tested so ...

The 7.0-RC1 builds have one of the three bugs fixed in them.  The other two bugs aren't fatal to installs on 7.0-RC1 (they were fatal to installs on 6.3-RC2...) and we have more 7.0-RCs coming so I went ahead with making 7.0-RC1 available as-is.  It's a memory leak while installing packages, as long as you have more than 512Mb of memory in the machine even installing either kde or gnome shouldn't cause you too much trouble.  More than that it'll start paging which is annoying. :-)
All three fixes have been put in RELENG_7_0 at this point but the 7.0-RC1 builds were done before the the second two fixes went in.
The 6.3-RC2 builds for amd64, i386, and sparc64 are being re-done with the three fixes in, they should be available in a day or so.

For people updating older systems, as previously announced the release branch for 7.0 has been created in the source repository so if you want to continue along the path of testing what will be released use RELENG_7_0 for the branch tag of any cvs or c[v]sup based updates.
More:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-December/039334.html

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