From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 10:06:18 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5275ED2D for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:06:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "Bizanga Labs SMTP Client Certificate", Issuer "Bizanga Labs CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D4EC1A9E for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:06:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id 3m331p003516WCc01m34qM; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:03:06 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=NIlb+iKg c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=PBtdaOD29JoA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=kMQLi9KT2fNzUdi_FKEA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1Xehtf-0001DZ-1l for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:03:03 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:03:01 +0100 Message-ID: <1668818.9lPcfAzp7h@curlew.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (FreeBSD/9.3-RELEASE-p2; KDE/4.12.5; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <543F0863.60205@hiwaay.net> References: <543F041D.7030206@hiwaay.net> <20141016013646.34d542e6.freebsd@edvax.de> <543F0863.60205@hiwaay.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Subject: Re: Noob question .... Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:06:18 -0000 On Wednesday 15 Oct 2014 18:50:59 William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > Also, how do I get freebsd-update to track changes ? The man page > (dated July 14 2010) was a bit sparse .... I would like to know if > newer stuff is available, & I couldn't see how to perhaps inquire > about that w/ freebsd-update .... Thx & TIA .... The only changes to RELEASE will be to fix security issues or major bugs. If you subscribe to the FreeBSD Security mailing list you'll hear about security fixes as soon as they're available. Then you just need to run "freebsd-update fetch install" to fix your system. If you want to be informed about (rare) errata notices for bug fixes you could subscribe to the FreeBSD Announce list. This has security and errata notices plus additional general announcements. But you only need worry about the bug fixes if the bug is already causing problems for you. All this, of course, only applies to the base system. To keep up to date with vulnerabilities in ports you rely on the pkg audit output from the periodic security script. As with the base system there's no need up upgrade your packages unless you need to to fix a security vulnerability or you need some new feature. -- Mike Clarke