Upgrading from 10.3 to 12

[absduser]

I would like to do an in-place install/upgrade to FreeBSD 12. How might that be (safely) done, since freebsd-update doesn't work and FreeBSD 12 isn't on the subversion sites?

 

[wblock@]

12 is on the Subversion sites, but it is called "head" until it is released. Likewise with freebsd-update(8), it won't be available that way until release. If you're not comfortable with building from source, running head is probably going to be uncomfortable.

 

[SirDice]

A note regarding -CURRENT: Topics about unsupported FreeBSD versions

 

[absduser]

I'm comfortable with buildworld and buildkernel, but I'm still stuck on getting the source out.

Sorry if I'm being dense, but this:

svn checkout [URL]https://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/base/head[/URL] /usr/src

simply checks out 10.3-RELEASE sources.

What URL should I be using then since:

https://svn0.us-west.freebsd.org/head

is invalid?

 

[SirDice]

Use https://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/