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On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:27:31 +0200
Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote:

> 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.

And to upgrade between two such branches.