From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 9 17:35:40 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182759973FC for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:35:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jungleboogie0@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x231.google.com (mail-ig0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::231]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AA73C14AC for ; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 17:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jungleboogie0@gmail.com) Received: by igpy18 with SMTP id y18so1828125igp.0 for ; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:35:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=irHzDe1G0xWabOjSqOd8T+1KQrkCnWxm0TrHWCReZ6I=; b=bq9mUdbQ95Hc03rZmuEFp+1/ze47LYY81xgphbW5s3KhsOi0vXm3McP1Z5OhwbAEGW xeNndlfDauFv5bz3+f+0nEWrHQio2Q9S6UY4vCKMtNRZ4LobB7tXYGfwmuYZOEb4XsEq K9/efiFsTwgSHgY+Ni3o17SpD21e2bAYIJGMZN5wL9MG8s32QBcROwyYwIqi21zOe+75 eeOeKfaxhkUnpAE02uzNnNGw5F0j4Kddj/PHngAyb1QlaL3O9rmdk7f7gw6hK3rPlJgc eB+ckhHqE96lQVwlIxJXErx4xa7ctrlRfwKqtNNfP0Cuwn/1KIBxDsFEeB6DLydDK2Yr hqfQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.61.195 with SMTP id s3mr1253808igr.62.1436463339108; Thu, 09 Jul 2015 10:35:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.79.74.130 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:35:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <559C6B73.8050509@sneakertech.com> References: <559C6B73.8050509@sneakertech.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 10:35:39 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Questions about freebsd-update From: jungle Boogie To: Quartz Cc: FreeBSD questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 17:35:40 -0000 On 7 July 2015 at 17:14, Quartz wrote: > 1) How do I get a list of available updates for a system WITHOUT actually > downloading anything or writing any files to disk? Well when I use freebsd-update it's to fetch security advisories and errata notices, both available on the lower right side here: https://www.freebsd.org/ Open one up, look for the patch and view it. I have no idea about 2. For 3, the SA and EN contain this at the bottom: VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. I don't think you'd be able to patch a release machine without freebsd-update as with stable/head, you need to fetch latest code, build world and head as described here: https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html -- ------- inum: 883510009027723 sip: jungleboogie@sip2sip.info xmpp: jungle-boogie@jit.si