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Subject: Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues
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On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500
Zane C. B-H. wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100
> RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:
>=20

> > freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have to go
> > from security branch to security branch.
>=20
> I know it can't be used to update to stable, but I've not encountered
> any thing in the documentation saying it can't be used to update from
> stable it to a release.
>=20

=46rom the man page:

"... the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped
in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team"