Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:35:32 -0500 From: "Zane C. B-H." <v.velox@vvelox.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues Message-ID: <20120625083532.697bcf43@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> In-Reply-To: <20120625141236.3eb42e26@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20120625042118.1cc42ab2@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> <20120625122612.6f704f9b@gumby.homeunix.com> <20120625065345.56dcf2fd@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> <20120625141236.3eb42e26@gumby.homeunix.com>
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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.
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