From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 10 20:26:45 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 969FEFA1 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pb0-x22d.google.com (mail-pb0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6C415AEB for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:26:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f45.google.com with SMTP id uo5so7750941pbc.4 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:26:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=kuwEzRF/kGiGAcjfSgemvnewOWhcitJAwiQUZvjMNOs=; b=hXO4TAgYCg4Dd3go9pZ0SQnXZImdNNwOXNoXF/Nm2Vmkw47Si8JW4rBs12KcDZC8Rp 6hCipLEwdMTQeFgj822k2PRwZoXiLrwuOX1q1lF3TTjJx9dxlrJnie4Ttoe9604L/rJo NADsb1YynGpiNWoGi+Hkv2UG8f/wDw2NKceJlGMRbOD0zOEODXXvLYm35eXvGFk+yLNT ku0+cjTdlIsZ5Wu/VPmDn2HO+akhVriga9rBpxJedMhLrHhM9XvLOqQjsuqCQEkoAUCm umO2X+KtCCWjjPbbVawEm+sM3Iu/eOXHovuhSOsOFkp5J+TDOBXKPXEz6Y3/44Ccq9Xo /cXQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.139.70 with SMTP id qw6mr41856794pab.111.1394483205146; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:26:45 -0700 (PDT) Sender: kob6558@gmail.com Received: by 10.66.0.164 with HTTP; Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:26:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <531D1D5B.104@bluerosetech.com> <25A3D0D5-AE4D-4A92-90EA-E1D8188B9401@kreme.com> <20140310115235.GI53062@home.opsec.eu> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 13:26:45 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: VOObdWAnizGR_z2Hi94EBmh0EpA Message-ID: Subject: Re: freebsd-update wants to update to version I'm running From: Kevin Oberman To: LuKreme Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.17 Cc: FreeBSD Ports ML X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 20:26:45 -0000 On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 6:38 AM, LuKreme wrote: > > On 10 Mar 2014, at 05:52 , Kurt Jaeger wrote: > > > 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. > > But if you have 8.4p7 which is the last version of 8.4, why is it fetching > updates? and what are those updates updating to? > > freebsd-update has no idea that 8.4p7 is the newest version. 'fetch' will always simply fetch the the current update for the version of FreeBSD that is running on the system. If it is hte one currently on the system, so be it. 'upgrade', on the other hand, will start the process of upgrading to a new version (major or minor) which is a vastly more complex operation. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com