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>> Having endured 'buildworld; buildkernel; nstallkernal; reboot' and
>> 'installworld; mergemaster' over the past few weeks I can say without
>> exaggeration it is an order of magnitude more time consuming that
>> 'yum update' or 'aptitude upgrade'.
>
> How about "freebsd-update fetch; freebsd-update install; reboot"?

Tried that but didn't find it reliable.  Have also heard rumors of
freebsd-update being deprecated at some point.

Roger