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

[LuKreme]

On 09 Mar 2014, at 20:03 , Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com> wrote:

> 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.

Ah, ok.

What does fetch do then? It seems odd that it would fetch files for the current version you already have installed, doesn’t it?

“Fetches updates from server” is indicating what updates?

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