[Out from under a rock] Updating CORE (freebsd-update)

[grahamperrin]

@John

I’m proposing to grab the script freebsd-update and conf file from a jail or from the freebsd-src and running it from within the TrueNAS base. I’m guessing (based on the man page) it should do a fairly good job in keeping installed packages but I want to run the process on an old jail to see how the script works. Then I’m going to create a VM, install TrueNAS and try my theory to see what breaks (I can’t replicate my entire setup but I can get a feel).

Noted:

@John

… As an experiment I wanted to install FreeBSD and decided to try
freebsd-update.

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/main/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh > freebsd-update.sh
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/main/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.conf > freebsd-update.conf
chmod +x freebsd-update.sh

And then proceeded to try:

./freebsd-update.sh -s update.FreeBSD.org -k 800651ef4b4c71c27e60786d7b487188970f4b4169cc055784e21eb71d410cc5 -d /root --currently-running 13.1-RELEASE -r 14.1-RELEASE upgrade

Which didn’t work.