WARNING: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

[Bas Smeelen]

On 11/16/2012 08:52 AM, Matthias Petermann wrote:
>     Hi Andreas,
>     do I understand it right - the default behaviour of freebsd-update will
>     be to update a 9.0 system to 9.1 when it becomes available? So this is
>     a rolling procedure?

Hi

No it only updates the release you have.
To upgrade you wil have to use -r and specify the release
In other words to upgrade use
freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE upgrade

>     I ask this because I could not find a parameter etc. in the man page
>     which may influent this, e.g. to limit updates to stay in a main
>     release (9.0, 9.0-p1, 9.0-p....., 9.0-p12) but don't upgrade to 9.1.
>     Kind regards,
>     Matthias
>     Am Freitag, 16. November 2012 00:25 CET, Andreas Rudisch
>     <"cyb."@gmx.net> schrieb:
>
>       On Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:53 +0100
>       Matthias Petermann wrote:
>       > Thanks for the clearification. One technical thing: is it
>       possible, to upgrade
>       > from FreeBSD 9.0 to 9.1 with the freebsd-update utility?
>       Yes, it is.



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