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From: "Zane C. B-H." <v.velox@vvelox.net>
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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 14:12:36 +0100
RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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:
> > 
> 
> > > freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have
> > > to go from security branch to security branch.
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> From the man page:
> 
> "... the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases
> shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team"

Right, that is exactly what I was referring to. 9.0-RELEASE is one of
those as far as I know.

It is ambiguous as to if that means being upgraded from or to and the
error message given does not indicate what is being upgraded from is
not supported, so I am a bit confused on if this is to be expected or
not.