Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 07:57:04 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: hartzell@alerce.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where are patch releases to 12.0 posted/announced/...? Message-ID: <336d3ba5-344a-e3b6-fe54-84cf7d473fe7@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <23815.54940.588108.337263@alice.local> References: <23815.54940.588108.337263@alice.local>
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On 17/06/2019 19:06, George Hartzell wrote:
>
> Is there a way to know, before fetching updates, whether a system is
> up to date (or what the current patch level is for a release)?
>
> E.g. I have a system that I installed from the 12.0 release iso and
> I've run through the `freebsd-uppdate {fetch,install}` dance a couple
> of times. It now reports itself as this:
>
> ```
> FreeBSD foo.example.com 12.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 12.0-RELEASE-p4
> GENERIC amd64
> ```
>
> I'm not sure if it's up to date or not.
>
> In the past I've run `freebsd-update fetch` and examined the output to
> decide if I need to `freebsd-update install`. If I postpone the
> install (scheduling a convenient time), I always feel a bit awkward,
> having an update fetched and sitting there. The only rational reason
> for the feeling is worrying what would happen if another update was
> release before I got this one installed. And, perhaps I'm just a neat
> freak...
>
> Is there a page somewhere that lists the current patch releases of
> the current versions?
>
> I've checked:
>
> - the releases page: https://www.freebsd.org/releases
> - the 12.0 errata page: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/12.0R/errata.html
> - the `freebsd-announce`:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/) list, which
> has messages about individual issues, but I don't see release
> announcements.
>
> I feel like I'm missing something obvious, but....
I subscribe to the freebsd-security mailing list. Any mail on that lists
the problem and which patch level fixes it, which is invariably at least
one higher than my current one.
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