From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 4 11:02:53 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 5952F1065677 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 11:02:53 +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 2EDF28FC15 for ; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 11:02:52 +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 p84B2oA2001620; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 05:02:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mike@chilled.skew.org) Received: (from mike@localhost) by chilled.skew.org (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id p84B2noB001619; Sun, 4 Sep 2011 05:02:49 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from mike) From: Mike Brown Message-Id: <201109041102.p84B2noB001619@chilled.skew.org> In-Reply-To: <4E633233.5060802@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Matthew Seaman Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 05:02:49 -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: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Sun, 04 Sep 2011 11:02:53 -0000 > Ah. Anything -STABLE is not supported through freebsd-update. STABLE, > despite the name, is a development branch. If you want to use > freebsd-update than you need to be running a -RELEASE version. Even so, > you're going to need to upgrade to something quite a lot more recent > than 8.0-RELEASE to get support. See the list of supported versions here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ > > RELENG_8_0 is no longer officially supported, and you would be well > advised to upgrade to a more recent version. RELENG_8_2 a.k.a > 8.2-RELEASE is what I'd recommend. Thanks for all this info. The handbook definitely needs some work in that section. The intro makes it sound like cvsup, make buildworld, etc. isn't something anyone needs to do anymore, when in fact it's only -RELEASE users who can use the tool. Even then, if too much time has gone by, the release will have fallen out of support, and freebsd-update won't work with it. That seems like something that should be mentioned :) However, I'm kind of confused now, because I arrived at that part of the handbook via a web search for freebsd-update, but I notice that if I navigate with the Prev/Next links at the bottom of the page, the next chapter is chapter 26 again, only now it's about Serial Communications. And Prev from there is Network Communication. It seems there's a 26.2 freebsd-update chapter hanging around, separate from the (current?) 24.2 freebsd-update chapter. 26.2: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-freebsdupdate.html 24.2: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html The download-related text I was asking about is not in the 24.2 version. -Mike