Binary Upgrade of FreeBSD 6.1 to 6.2

Last year I described performing a binary upgrade of FreeBSD 6.0 to 6.1. Today I tried a similar process for FreeBSD 6.1 to 6.2, using Colin Percival's instructions for 6.1 to 6.2-RC1.

shuttle01# mkdir /usr/upgrade
shuttle01# cd /usr/upgrade
shuttle01# fetch http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/upgrade-to-6.2.tgz
upgrade-to-6.2.tgz                              100% of   18 kB  120 kBps
shuttle01# tar -xzf upgrade-to-6.2.tgz
shuttle01# cd upgrade-to-6.2
shuttle01# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -d /usr/upgrade
 -r 6.2-RELEASE upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata signature for 6.1-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/smp world/base world/dict world/doc world/manpages

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games
src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue
src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin
world/catpages world/games world/info world/proflibs

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 6.2-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches... done.
Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 2703 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80...
...edited...
Applying patches... done.
Fetching 5315 files... done.
The following files will be removed as part of updating to 6.2-RELEASE-p1:
...edited...
The following files will be added as part of updating to 6.2-RELEASE-p1:
...edited...
The following files will be updated as part of updating to 6.2-RELEASE-p1:
...edited...
shuttle01# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf
 -d /usr/upgrade install
Installing updates...
Kernel updates have been installed.  Please
reboot and run "freebsd-update.sh install" again to
finish installing updates.
...reboot...
shuttle01# cd /usr/upgrade/upgrade-to-6.2
shuttle01# sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -d /usr/upgrade install
Installing updates... done.
shuttle01# uname -a
FreeBSD shuttle01.taosecurity.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0:
 Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007    
 root@dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386

That's it -- very easy. I believe we'll see this integrated into 6-STABLE and then appear in 6.3 RELEASE. I love it.