Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:21:34 -0600 From: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update questions Message-ID: <CAFKhKgrqM=W_Fz=hvUNCTonfjoJEXR6FLM=g=L=xo1jY=wffnw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <54B37A5F.5050302@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <CAFKhKgqaHbzWRpxBginmH91s2YVgtzZZsAdHX2T_5OjdnQ1Qag@mail.gmail.com> <54B37A5F.5050302@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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Thank, Matthew. The update worked. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 12/01/2015 04:08, Andrew Gould wrote: > > I ran 'freebsd-update fetch', but forgot to run 'freebsd-update install'. > > Later, I decided to upgrade, to 10.1, so I ran 'freebsd-update -r > > 10.1-RELEASE upgrade'. So now I have fetched an update and an upgrade. > > What will happen if I run 'freebsd-update install'? > > > > Is there a way to delete what has been fetched and start over? > > Yeah. 'freebsd-update fetch' or 'freebsd-update -r X.Y-RELEASE upgrade' > prepare a set of patches to install in order to effect an update. If > you run one of them but then subsequently omit the 'freebsd-update > install' step, then run either of those commands again, if the target > version has changed in the mean time (flipping between 'fetch' and > 'upgrade' counts), it will download a new set of patches to update the > installed system to the new desired version. This will take advantage > of any patches already downloaded and sitting in freebsd-update's cache, > but otherwise it recreates the update job from scratch. It will ignore > any patches not relevant to the update you requested. > > So the way you start over is to rerun your 'fetch' or 'upgrade' command, > but only if there are new patches to download. > > Cheers, > > Matthew > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey > JID: matthew@infracaninophile.co.uk > >
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