Questions about freebsd-update

[Brian W.]

Looking at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
I see the below.


@daily                                  root    freebsd-update cron

If patches exist, they will automatically be downloaded but will not be
applied. The root user will be sent an email so that the patches may be
reviewed and manually installed with freebsd-update install.

On Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 1:06 PM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
wrote:

> On 07/09/15 12:06, Quartz wrote:
>
>> So... does anyone have any ideas here? Is any of this even possible?
>>
>>
>> On 2015-07-07 8:14 PM, Quartz wrote:
>>
>>> Have a couple odd situations I need to work around. I'm wondering if
>>> anyone can help me answer the following questions about updating:
>>>
>>> 1) How do I get a list of available updates for a system WITHOUT
>>> actually downloading anything or writing any files to disk?
>>>
>>
> I would like to see this as well :-) ....
>
>
>>> 2) How do I get freebsd-update to install only specific patches or
>>> updates instead of everything?
>>>
>>
> Given the integration of base system packages & kernel, I don't think you
> would want to do this. This actually sounds kinda .... dare I say it (?)
> .... *linuxy* .... ick
>
>
>>> 3) How do I (or even can I) manually download patches onto a usb drive
>>> and then install them onto a machine that has no internet connection?
>>>
>>>
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