From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 3 22:38:21 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF2B8106564A for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 22:38:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@skew.org) Received: from chilled.skew.org (chilled.skew.org [70.90.116.205]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C40518FC12 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 22:38:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from chilled.skew.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by chilled.skew.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p83MGW9c049529 for ; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 16:16:33 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mike@chilled.skew.org) Received: (from mike@localhost) by chilled.skew.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p83MGWR9049528 for doc@freebsd.org; Sat, 3 Sep 2011 16:16:32 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mike) From: Mike Brown Message-Id: <201109032216.p83MGWR9049528@chilled.skew.org> To: doc@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 16:16:32 -0600 (MDT) X-Whoa: whoa. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL124d (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Cc: Subject: FreeBSD Handbook sec. 26.2 (freebsd-update) missing info X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2011 22:38:22 -0000 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