freebsd-update override changed files

[Ben Woods]

On Wednesday, 17 August 2016, Gerhard Schmidt <schmidt at ze.tum.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> i have some FreeBSD servers and use freebsd-update to keep them up to date.
>
> every run freebsd-update claims that some files are locally modified and
> therefore not updated.
>
> i never touched any of those files. How can i get freebsd-update to
> replace those files with the actual version or where do i get the actual
> versions to compare mine with them.
>
> Regards
>    Gerhard Schmidt
>

The freebsd-update(8) man page doesn't list a way to force overwriting
files, but it does mention you can find out what files have changed by
running:
# freebsd-update IDS

It also says the working files are stored in /var/db/freebsd-update by
default.

https://man.freebsd.org/freebsd-update

Regards,
Ben


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