Upgrading Using freebsd-update(8) ================================= Author: Momchil Ivanov Date : 2014.10.15 Introduction ------------ This article describes how to upgrade using freebsd-update(8). Upgrading from self compiled -STABLE or -RELEASE ------------------------------------------------ freebsd-update(8) upgrades binary installations from original media only. If you try upgrading from non-binary installation you will get the following error: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. In order to updgrade from self compiled -STABLE or -RELEASE installations you need to make freebsd-update(8) think that you are running a supported binary release. To do that use: # env UNAME_r=9.1-RELEASE freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RELEASE where 9.1-RELEASE is a release closest to the one you are running. If you want to see more information along the process use the option "-v debug".