Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 19:42:43 +1100 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> To: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> Cc: Masoom Shaikh <masoom.shaikh@yahoo.com>, "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrade from 10.1-RC3 to 10.1-RELEASE using freebsd-update Message-ID: <20141116191816.K31139@sola.nimnet.asn.au> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1toHrS5SWj94KFshuAmppkiVxbVwCJArRSpMPB8mP4ssA@mail.gmail.com> References: <1416065576.26947.YahooMailNeo@web190701.mail.sg3.yahoo.com> <CAN6yY1toHrS5SWj94KFshuAmppkiVxbVwCJArRSpMPB8mP4ssA@mail.gmail.com>
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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. freebsd-update(8) is reasonably clear about what upgrade means, but I'm still finding usage of these terms in pkg-update(8) and pkg-upgrade(8) regularly confusing especially as searching either for 'update|upgrade' shows plenty of hits for both. Perhaps less of an issue for non-native English speakers/authors? cheers, Ian
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