No way to upgrade to STABLE with freebsd-update?

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sicil

Hello,

I just tried to upgrade my 9.1-RELEASE to 9.1-STABLE using freebsd-update and it tells me it can't get the right metadata. By browing HTTP on one of the upgrade servers, I saw RELEASE versions, also as RCs and BETAs, but no STABLE. Isn't there a way to install STABLE without having to build the source code manually? Can someone explain me the reason for that, as I'm curious about that.

Thanks in advance.
 
-STABLE is a development branch. There may be some snapshots every once in a while, but generally speaking one builds it from source. If you don't want to compile from source, I suggest you stick with -RELEASE.
 
If you would like to follow -STABLE without compiling from source, I would suggest PC-BSD. It is FreeBSD at heart with lots of nice tools built on top. They are following -STABLE and are providing their own binary updates through freebsd-update.
 
Seems a similar problem!

sicil said:
Hello,

I just tried to upgrade my 9.1-RELEASE to 9.1-STABLE using freebsd-update and it tells me it can't get the right metadata. By browing HTTP on one of the upgrade servers, I saw RELEASE versions, also as RCs and BETAs, but no STABLE. Isn't there a way to install STABLE without having to build the source code manually? Can someone explain me the reason for that, as I'm curious about that.

Thanks in advance.
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It seems as if yours seems to be a similar problem as I am encountering as discussed here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=41495 though I am trying on FreeBSD 8.3.
 
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