git: 460ad988a9bb - main - freebsd-update.8: Note availability of updates for ALPHA, BETA, and RC
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Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2022 12:42:16 UTC
The branch main has been updated by 0mp (doc, ports committer):
URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=460ad988a9bb0e1aaf0da5fdb189cac752c42fe0
commit 460ad988a9bb0e1aaf0da5fdb189cac752c42fe0
Author: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
AuthorDate: 2022-04-22 12:28:04 +0000
Commit: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
CommitDate: 2022-04-22 12:37:14 +0000
freebsd-update.8: Note availability of updates for ALPHA, BETA, and RC
While here, restructure the section about the binary updates
availability.
MFC after: 1 week
---
usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
diff --git a/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 b/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8
index de4b5b4a4c0b..6d7fc792c6f1 100644
--- a/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8
+++ b/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8
@@ -52,22 +52,42 @@ tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback binary
updates to the
.Fx
base system.
-Note that updates are only available if they are being built for the
+.Sh BINARY UPDATES AVAILABILITY
+Binary updates are not available for every single
.Fx
-release and architecture being used; in particular, the
+version and architecture.
+.Pp
+In general, binary updates are available for ALPHA, BETA, RC, and RELEASE
+versions of
+.Fx ,
+e.g.:
+.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
+.It
+.Fx 13.1-ALPHA3
+.It
+.Fx 13.1-BETA2
+.It
+.Fx 13.1-RC1
+.It
+.Fx 13.1-RELEASE
+.El
+They are not available for branches such as PRERELEASE, STABLE, and CURRENT,
+e.g.:
+.Bl -item -offset indent -compact
+.It
+.Fx 13.0-PRERELEASE
+.It
+.Fx 13.1-STABLE
+.It
+.Fx 14.0-CURRENT
+.El
+.Pp
+In particular, the
.Fx
Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in binary form
by the
.Fx
-Release Engineering Team, e.g.,
-.Fx
-11.2-RELEASE and
-.Fx
-12.0-RELEASE, but not
-.Fx
-11.2-STABLE or
-.Fx
-13.0-CURRENT.
+Release Engineering Team.
.Sh OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
.Bl -tag -width "-r newrelease"