Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 16:16:32 -0600 (MDT) From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Handbook sec. 26.2 (freebsd-update) missing info Message-ID: <201109032216.p83MGWR9049528@chilled.skew.org>
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Hello, Section 26.2 of the FreeBSD Handbook[1] says "The latest version of freebsd-update may be installed by downloading the tar and gzip'd package from the above URL and installed with the following commands:" However, there's no URL above this. There's a link to the man page, and a link to the http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/ page, but neither of those has freebsd-update-upgrade.tgz on them. This should be fixed. Also, the phrase "For all current releases, downloading the latest version is not required" maybe should be moved up before the download instructions so that it comes before the implication that the download is necessary. And I'm not really clear on whether I need it. I have 8.0-STABLE, last updated a while ago (not long after the 2009-12-03 security update to the utility). Is this a "current release" that means I don't need to update the utility? Let me know. Thanks! [1] at <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-freebsdupdate.html>;
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