From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 16 13:13:10 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BDC351F7 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailhost.m5p.com (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:2001:418:3fd::f7]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7A468783 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:13:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonderland.m5p.com (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mailhost.m5p.com (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id sAGDCl6j005988 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 2014 08:13:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from george+freebsd@m5p.com) Message-ID: <5468A2CF.7030303@m5p.com> Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 08:12:47 -0500 From: George Mitchell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade from 10.1-RC3 to 10.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update References: <1416065576.26947.YahooMailNeo@web190701.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <20141116191816.K31139@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <20141116191816.K31139@sola.nimnet.asn.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.73 on 10.100.0.3 X-Greylist: Sender passed SPF test, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.7 (mailhost.m5p.com [IPv6:::1]); Sun, 16 Nov 2014 08:13:07 -0500 (EST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 13:13:10 -0000 On 11/16/14 03:42, Ian Smith wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 11:41:03 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > [..] > > You're using the wrong command to freebsd-update. > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 10.1-RELEASE > > > > "fetch" is appropriate to updating for patches to the release you are > > currently running. > > > > Since you installed from a USB distribution, there is no rollback. The > > rollback data is created by freebsd-update. > > > > Also, I suspect you entered the data above from memory as freebsd-upgrade > > is not a command in base freebsd. > > Personally I find usage of the terms 'update' and 'upgrade' bound to > lead to problems; they are not far enough from synonymous in common > English usage. C.O.D. has it thus: update v.t. Bring up to date. > upgrade v.t. Raise in rank etc. > [...] I'll see your confusion and raise you a question about why "pkg update" is even a separate option, since "pkg upgrade" will do it for you by default. Personally I have trained myself that "pkg update" isn't what I want and that I should always type "pkg upgrade". -- George