This short article illustrates the upgrade from FreeBSD 12.1 to FreeBSD 12.2.
Please take a full backup or create a snapshot before upgrading.
The whole upgrade process took about 30 minutes. This first 20 minutes where taken for download. During this time all applications where available to the users.
r@k:~ # uname -a FreeBSD wnk 12.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p10 GENERIC amd64 root@wnk:~ # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 12.1-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 12.1-RELEASE-p10. WARNING: FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE-p10 is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer release within the next 2 months. Sun Nov 1 09:58:28 UTC 2020 r@w:~ # freebsd-update upgrade -r 12.2-RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 12.1-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Fetching 1 metadata patches. done. Applying metadata patches... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic world/base world/doc world/lib32 Fetching metadata signature for 12.2-RELEASE 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... Fetching files from 12.1-RELEASE for merging... done. Preparing to download files... done. Fetching 9567 patches..10..20..420..430 done. Attempting to automatically merge changes in files... done. .... To install the downloaded upgrades, run "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install". /usr/sbin/freebsd-update install Installing updates... Kernel updates have been installed. Please reboot and run "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install" again to finish installing updates. usr/sbin/freebsd-update install Installing updates... done. To install the downloaded upgrades, run "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install". /usr/sbin/freebsd-update install Installing updates... Kernel updates have been installed. Please reboot and run "/usr/sbin/freebsd-update install" again to finish installing updates. shutdown -r now /usr/sbin/freebsd-update install Installing updates... find /var/db/freebsd-update/files -type f -mtime +60d -delete
Published: Nov. 1, 2020
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