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Date:      Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:36:14 -0400
From:      John Nielsen <john@jnielsen.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Predrag Aleksic <apetar@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD-update fails finding upgrade
Message-ID:  <200907291136.15020.john@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <4ad871310907290831q1544510do97d8ee117fd7cd60@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <1248879527.21731.5.camel@overlord.hopto.org> <4ad871310907290831q1544510do97d8ee117fd7cd60@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wednesday 29 July 2009 11:31:51 Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Predrag Aleksic<apetar@gmail.com> wrote:
> > freebsd-update fetch
> > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> > Fetching metadata signature for 7.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org...
> > done.
> > Fetching metadata index... done.
> > Inspecting system... done.
> > Preparing to download files... done.
> >
> > No updates needed to update system to 7.2-RELEASE-p2.
> >
> >
> > Is that normal? I mean, there obviously seems to be a 7.2-RELEASE-p3 but
> > then why isn't my system getting updated to that?
>
> The patch version is only bumped when there is a change in the kernel.
>
> See also:
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2009-03/msg0006=
9.
>html

Also see also=20
http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-09:12.bind.asc. And eithe=
r=20
be patient or use one of the other methods mentioned to update:

NOTE: Due to this issue being accidentally disclosed early, updated
binaries are yet not available via freebsd-update at the time this
advisory is being published. =A0Email will be sent to the freebsd-security
mailing list when the binaries are available via freebsd-update.

JN



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