From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 11 14:44:30 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A223106566B for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:44:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tomc1@charter.net) Received: from que31.charter.net (que31.charter.net [209.225.8.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC5D8FC0C for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:44:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imp11 ([10.20.200.11]) by mta21.charter.net (InterMail vM.8.01.05.02 201-2260-151-103-20110920) with ESMTP id <20111111141032.HHD23071.mta21.charter.net@imp11> for ; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:10:32 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.2] ([68.116.162.197]) by imp11 with smtp.charter.net id vqAY1h00D4Fqjvo05qAYC7; Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:10:32 -0500 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=3kn4snR/2TdwuYXvh+wm0CPnSGzQFWY7ukd303aPFv0= c=1 sm=1 a=AGoESrBi-XIA:10 a=yUnIBFQkZM0A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=r+nvV/Ddu/4oSijiw4DpQA==:17 a=s9oXJcMGAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=b3CR0saltfwKkUtFnWIA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=r+nvV/Ddu/4oSijiw4DpQA==:117 Message-ID: <4EBD2CD8.2040209@charter.net> Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:10:32 -0500 From: Tom Carpenter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20110922 Thunderbird/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: 8.2-RELEASE-p4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:44:30 -0000 Environment FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Sep 27 18:07:27 UTC 2011 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Running "freebsd-update fetch" I get the following output: ===== # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p4. ===== I'm new to FreeBSD and after looking through the FreeBSD website I think I may have answered my question, but thought I would say that the message "No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p4" seems a little contradictory: if "8.2-RELEASE-p4" isn't relevant for my FreeBSD installation why mention it. As far as answering my question, i.e. 'how does one install 8.2-RELEASE-p4 on a system running 8.2-RELEASE-p3', if I understand the relevant security advisory, http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc it looks like "8.2-RELEASE-p4" is an update for source, consequently, I'm getting the output that I am from freebsd-update because I don't have any source installed on my system. Also, after running "freebsd-update install", if I run sysinstall and attempt to install packages by selecting "Configure | Packages | Main Site", I get the following output ===== User Confirmation Requested Warning: Can't find the `8.2-RELEASE-p3' distribution on this FTP server. You may need to visit a different server for the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's available on ftp.freebsd.org (or set to "any"). Would you like to select another FTP server? ===== That message will go away if I edit `8.2-RELEASE-p3' to read `8.2-RELEASE' but I'm not sure if that's the appropriate solution...would I get the current versions of packages if I did that? -Tom Carpenter