freebsd-update strange message

Doug McIntyre merlyn at geeks.org
Thu Oct 1 22:36:41 UTC 2020


On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 08:20:03AM +0200, Erwan David wrote:
> My freebsd-update cron gives me the following-message :
> 
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 11.3-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... 
> done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
> Preparing to download files... done.
> The following files are affected by updates. No changes have
> been downloaded, however, because the files have been modified
> locally:
> /var/db/mergemaster.mtree
> 
> No updates needed to update system to 11.3-RELEASE-p14.
> 
> WARNING: FreeBSD 11.3-RELEASE-p13 HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE.
> Any security issues discovered after Wed Sep 30 02:00:00 CEST 2020
> will not have been corrected.
> 
> I am running 11.3-RELEASE-p14, but it still has 11.3-RELEASE-p13 kernel
> 
> What should I do ? (I did not touch to /var/db/mergemaster.mtree other 
> concern)



Upgrade to FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE now that 11.3-RELEASE has gone end-of-life.
(3 months after the release of 11.4).






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