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Date:      Sun, 23 Mar 2014 11:30:01 -0400
From:      Lee Dilkie <lee@dilkie.com>
To:        Esa Karkkainen <ejk@iki.fi>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: reason 23 why we've moved to linux
Message-ID:  <532EFDF9.4030109@dilkie.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140322192957.GA30818@pp.htv.fi>
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On 3/22/2014 15:29, Esa Karkkainen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 03:49:34AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
>> > and i have two 9 systems where i try to use freebsd-update.  also a
>> > time-consuming rabbit hole leading nowhere pleasant.  e.g.
>> > 
>> > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE-p3
> Lose the "-p3", because freebsd-update will get you to the lastet
> patch level. If you don't like this behaviour, you can use svn.

then freebsd-update should give an error message that the "-p3" should
be omitted, or offer to fetch "9.2-RELEASE" instead.

what it shouldn't do is accept this is a valid input and then go off and
pretend all the mirrors are down.

-lee




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