svn commit: r279571 - head/usr.sbin/freebsd-update

Justin T. Gibbs gibbs at scsiguy.com
Wed Mar 4 14:59:28 UTC 2015


On Mar 3, 2015, at 4:20 PM, Allan Jude <allanjude at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> Author: allanjude (doc committer)
> Date: Tue Mar  3 23:20:18 2015
> New Revision: 279571
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/279571
> 
> Log:
>  Add a new safetly belt to freebsd-update to prevent a user doing a minor update (-pX) while having an unfinished major upgrade (9.x to 9.y)
>  Safetly belt can be disabled with the -F flag
> 
>  Additionally, add the --not-running-from-cron flag they bypasses the TTY requirement, and allows freebsd-update to be invoked by orchestration frameworks, scripts, or otherwise.

Would "—non-interactive" be a better name for this option?  Or maybe there is a standard option name used by other utilities to disable the TTY check?

—
Justin



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