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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 2025 11:22:53 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-all@FreeBSD.org, dev-commits-src-main@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: git: e9792345d36c - main - freebsd-version.8: Remove freebsd-update paragraph
Message-ID:  <724b4f2f-6180-4df8-84d5-030d937b9462@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202508052206.575M65Yg076248@gitrepo.freebsd.org>
References:  <202508052206.575M65Yg076248@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On 8/5/25 18:06, Alexander Ziaee wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by ziaee:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=e9792345d36c96dbb49f3ee996f75384a4cca532
> 
> commit e9792345d36c96dbb49f3ee996f75384a4cca532
> Author:     Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2025-08-05 22:05:04 +0000
> Commit:     Alexander Ziaee <ziaee@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2025-08-05 22:05:29 +0000
> 
>      freebsd-version.8: Remove freebsd-update paragraph
>      
>      For the sunset of freebsd-update in 15.0R, remove a paragraph
>      claiming this utility should work even if using freebsd-update.
>      
>      MFC:                    never
>      Reviewed by:            0mp, bcr
>      Differential Revision:  https://reviews.freebsd.org/D51160

Hmm, we might want to hold off on removing references to freebsd-update.  First, 15.0
has to keep freebsd-update (and probably future releases) to permit updating older
jails (e.g. jails running 14.x).  Second, markj@ has been looking at adding a pkgbase
backend for freebsd-update so that users could still use the freebsd-update UI, but
it would use pkg instead of bspatch under the hood for 15.0 and later.

-- 
John Baldwin




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