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From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
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Subject: Re: freebsd-update wants to update to version I'm running
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Hi!

> What does fetch do then? It seems odd that it would fetch files
> for the current version you already have installed, doesn?t it?

It fetches newer patches.

If you have 8.4p1 and do

freebsd-upgrade fetch

it gets the more recent 8.4p4 or so.

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