freebsd-update questions

[Brian W.]

A key thing to watch for in the conf files is that markers will be put in
place so you can see what's new; those need to be deleted.
On Jan 12, 2015 10:27 AM, "Andrew Gould" <andrewlylegould at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 1:40 AM, Matthew Seaman <
> m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > On 12/01/2015 04:08, Andrew Gould wrote:
> > > I ran 'freebsd-update fetch', but forgot to run 'freebsd-update
> install'.
> > > Later, I decided to upgrade, to 10.1, so I ran 'freebsd-update -r
> > > 10.1-RELEASE upgrade'.  So now I have fetched an update and an upgrade.
> > > What will happen if I run 'freebsd-update install'?
> > >
> > > Is there a way to delete what has been fetched and start over?
> >
> > Yeah.  'freebsd-update fetch' or 'freebsd-update -r X.Y-RELEASE upgrade'
> > prepare a set of patches to install in order to effect an update.  If
> > you run one of them but then subsequently omit the 'freebsd-update
> > install' step, then run either of those commands again, if the target
> > version has changed in the mean time (flipping between 'fetch' and
> > 'upgrade' counts), it will download a new set of patches to update the
> > installed system to the new desired version.  This will take advantage
> > of any patches already downloaded and sitting in freebsd-update's cache,
> > but otherwise it recreates the update job from scratch.  It will ignore
> > any patches not relevant to the update you requested.
> >
> > So the way you start over is to rerun your 'fetch' or 'upgrade' command,
> > but only if there are new patches to download.
> >
> >         Cheers,
> >
> >         Matthew
> >
> > --
> > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
> >
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>
>
> Does anyone have a link to documentation that shows how to deal with
> merging configuration files in upgrading via freebsd-update?  The online
> manual mentions the topic but doesn't provide much guidance.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew
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