Upgrade from a 11.0-CURRENT snapshot

Martin Angers

Martin Angers

Hello,

I'm new to FreeBSD and recently installed a 11.0-CURRENT snapshot on my laptop. It works absolutely great, but I saw the notice about the RND issue that made the keys unsafe/predictable, and I'd like to upgrade to the latest snapshot (I noticed a new, presumably correct snapshot was published on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/11.0, and all previous ones are gone).

From my googling and readings (and actually trying the command anyway), I think that freebsd-update() does not work for snapshots. Is there some easy way to upgrade for snapshots, or should I just build world from sources, as described here https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html ?

And yes, I'm aware of all the warnings about running -CURRENT, not complaining at all, just interested to see if I missed some easier upgrade path.

Thanks,
Martin
 
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FWIW I do the following on a regular basis on a test system:

- boot directly to zfs
- all user data is in zroot/store/home (mounted at zroot/usr/home) and zroot/store/local (mounted at /usr/local) which I treat as "persistent"
- I boot off mfsbsd
- zfs unmount zroot/store & descendants
- zfs rename zroot/usr zroot/var & zroot/ROOT/default
- re-create the missing zfs datasets
- "re-install" the newest -CURRENT snapshot
- transfer back in any missing config files, mainly /etc/* bits
- reboot into happiness
- poudriere rebuild packages

Your workflow might be different but the general idea should be the same.
 
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