Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:27:31 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Kyle Dippery <kyle@engr.uky.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update newbie Message-ID: <20100831162731.217ffb74.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100831135619.GA37924@engr.uky.edu> References: <20100831135619.GA37924@engr.uky.edu>
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:56:19 -0400, Kyle Dippery <kyle@engr.uky.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I've just installed 8.1 from distribution CDs and updated stable > with cvsup. I want to enable freebsd-update to keep the system, > well, updated. That won't work. The freebsd-update program is used to track RELEASE (including the security patches) in a binary way, bringing you from 8.1-RELESE to 8.1-RELESE-p1 to 8.1-RELESE-p2 and so on. STABLE is not supported by freebsd-update. If you want to track STABLE, you need to compile stuff yourself from sources updated via cvsup or csup (see instructions in the FreeBSD handbook and additionally /usr/src/Makefile). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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