Summary

In this hour, you learned about the different update paths available for FreeBSD and how to decide which one you should use. You learned how to update your system source tree to the latest version from a FreeBSD server. You also learned how to rebuild your entire system from the new sources and update the configuration files. In addition, you learned how to recover if something goes wrong during the build process.

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