Solved How to upgrade 9.0 with broken ports to 9.3?

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ph0enix

I need to upgrade a 9.0-p4 system to 9.3. The problem is that the server doesn't have svn installed and /usr/ports are broken.

I tried freebsd-update(8) but it failed as well. Is there a way to install the svn binary? pkg_add -r doesn't seem to work anymore.
 
In Thread 49967, the user noted they needed to update from 9.0-RELEASE to 9.1-RELEASE before being able to upgrade to 10.1-RELEASE. Keep in mind there were some errata notices regarding freebsd-update(8) listed at the link below that are likely the cause of your issues. The same solution will likely allow you to update to 9.3-RELEASE, which I would advise doing as soon as possible.

https://www.freebsd.org/security/notices.html

Also, old release packages are still available on the archives. Just point yourself at the location below and you'll find that devel/subversion at the time of 9.0-RELEASE is still available.

http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/ports/amd64/packages-9.0-release/devel/
 
Thank you for the info!
I managed to restore the system in question from a backup that was made before ports got broken and was able to build/install an old version of SVN. After that, the upgrade was a breeze!
 
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