From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 18:21:38 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FDCFBC9 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:21:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x22e.google.com (mail-la0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C3D33350 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:21:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f46.google.com with SMTP id q1so25651984lam.5 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:21:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=bTH+A/10e3ekzte3iqaTOFO5dugv6V36exqTpqaYDk4=; b=syKnZYM92M1+pQR+36j3LDPCa22W88vLG4mmQimE6a+WrLr+DFXsjum/B5FHA+FViI mz6rlh27i4C0v9b7huKxtNKSBKSM0I/K5qwbAlqFCLOIfwn4TV+dPJ0Y4bZOqtATVeDO ypGf8vaLv5B02MD+JksUfZUW+RAarI3Guq1RSmNyMMr2nAz5ejk83/GVyzXrkDBJzl+S IKV+17nrZt7BVx8lOHDMapTKm4mXMqRzWvr8kvNkJXxDYOQZGt5QIZJPphhebR8osRxG 8hScLgEPBqPsYcinay4xuhdZg5tFeTNuB1Shr9Z4Ng0JCj50In/kIBGzCIQkm7VmHaHh TB9g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.8.11 with SMTP id n11mr36412712laa.38.1421086895039; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:21:35 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.25.161.1 with HTTP; Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:21:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <54B37A5F.5050302@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <54B37A5F.5050302@infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 12:21:34 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: freebsd-update questions From: Andrew Gould To: Matthew Seaman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List 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: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 18:21:38 -0000 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 > >