From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 19 22:23:10 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7705F3F7 for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:23:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steve@sohara.org) Received: from uk1rly2283.eechost.net (relay01a.mail.uk1.eechost.net [217.69.40.75]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31827B4C for ; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:23:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [31.186.37.179] (helo=smtp.marelmo.com) by uk1rly2283.eechost.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1U7vau-0005xd-8f; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:23:24 +0000 Received: from [192.168.63.1] (helo=steve.marelmo.com) by smtp.marelmo.com with smtp (Exim 4.80.1 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1U7vae-0000P7-7z; Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:23:08 +0000 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:22:37 +0000 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith To: Denzel Turner Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9.1 Update? Message-Id: <20130219222237.250a6b36c1fc32b29a15ea28@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20130219194306.f5c8ce651ef2eb1d96112fc1@sohara.org> <5123D672.7010802@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auth-Info: 15567@permanet.ie (plain) Cc: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2013 22:23:10 -0000 On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:03:56 -0600 Denzel Turner wrote: > Hello Gentlemen and thank you for the prompt response. I thought > freegsd-update for FreeBSD 9.1 only updated with FreeBSD 9.0 Packages as > the Update Functionality Infrastructure was being rebuilt. I might be > wrong about this but I thought this was put out in the FreeBSD 9.1 > Announcement. Ah I see the confusion. The package building infrastructure is indeed still being rebuilt and so there are no packages for 9.1 and the only packages on the distribution sites are now quite old. However the base system updates used by freebsd-update are still being produced. > I am learning about FreeBSD after not using it for several > years. My first FreeBSD was 5.4 i386 version. Hmm that release occurred during my break from FreeBSD between 4.x and 9.0. My first FreeBSD install was 1.1. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith