freebsd-update EoL "warning" prevents installing latest SAs

User kitchetech at gmail.com
Tue Nov 21 06:31:58 UTC 2017


The updates install fine here even if the eol warning is showing. The uname
only updates if the kernel updates for patch levels.

On Nov 21, 2017 12:06 AM, "Franco Fichtner" <franco at lastsummer.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have two systems running 11.0-p12, freebsd-update
> fetches the updates for 11.0-p15, displays all file
> changes but bails at the last second, skipping install,
> telling that the release is EoL:
>
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.sbin/
> freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh#L2011
>
> Changing the return value to 0 seems to fix that, it's
> probably better to install these updates despite the
> EoL...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Franco
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