I just upgraded from 11.2 to 12-RELEASE and it was smooth. This is my first time upgrading FreeBSD and I would like to keep the old shared libraries that this step is supposed to remove. I issued
Will it go to that phase or to the one I skipped? How can I finish updating properly without deleting the libraries? Can I just keep using my system like this?
# freebsd-update install
for the first time after downloading all the patches, then rebooted, then the Handbook mentions running that command again to delete old shared libraries and objects. I skipped that step and reinstalled all packages with # pkg upgrade -f
. My system is working normally and the update seems to be complete. But the Handbook says that I should run # freebsd-update install
again to "tie all loose ends".Will it go to that phase or to the one I skipped? How can I finish updating properly without deleting the libraries? Can I just keep using my system like this?