freebsd-update wants to update to version I'm running

Darren Pilgrim list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Mon Mar 10 02:03:13 UTC 2014


On 3/9/2014 6:43 PM, LuKreme wrote:
>   # uname -a
> FreeBSD ns1.covisp.net 8.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 8.4-RELEASE-p7 #0: Sat Jan 11 01:45:47 UTC 2014     root at amd64-builde
> r.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>   # freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 8.4-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
>
> The following files will be updated as part of updating to 8.4-RELEASE-p7:
> ^C
>
> I get the same when I try without a -r setting as well.

The -r flag only applies to the 'upgrade' command.



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