Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:44:52 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Don O'Neil" <lists@lizardhill.com> Cc: 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, cperciva@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Freebsd-Update & Stable Dist's Message-ID: <44ps7bg1nv.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <019401c76598$92c4bdb0$0700020a@mickey> (Don O'Neil's message of "Tue\, 13 Mar 2007 10\:53\:57 -0700") References: <019401c76598$92c4bdb0$0700020a@mickey>
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"Don O'Neil" <lists@lizardhill.com> writes: > When I built my latest server I used a FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE-200608 ISO image > that was produced on one of the serveral 'snapshot' sites.... > > However, I was going to run freebsd-update to check for any patches, etc.. > That may need to be applied and it says it won't run on my machine: > > This system is running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE-200608. > FreeBSD Update is only designed to track FreeBSD Security > and Errata branches and cannot update this system > > I was wondering if there is a way to force it to think my machine is really > 6.1-RELEASE, or to safely use freebsd-update on my machine. I would think you would need to update some other way to be completely safe anyway. Since there's been a release more recently than that anyway, a binary upgrade to 6.2 would be an easy way to kickstart your ongoing use of freebsd-update.
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