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Subject: Re: freebsd-update wants to update to version I'm running
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On 10 Mar 2014, at 05:52 , Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu> wrote:

> Hi!
>=20
>> What does fetch do then? It seems odd that it would fetch files
>> for the current version you already have installed, doesn?t it?
>=20
> It fetches newer patches.
>=20
> If you have 8.4p1 and do
>=20
> freebsd-upgrade fetch
>=20
> it gets the more recent 8.4p4 or so.

But if you have 8.4p7 which is the last version of 8.4, why is it =
fetching updates? and what are those updates updating to?


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