freebsd-update EoL "warning" prevents installing latest SAs

[Xin LI]

We will soon (this Tuesday) issue another SA that would be used as a
vehicle to deliver a new EoL date to 11.0, but since it's EoL is
really close, please consider upgrading to 11.1-RELEASE at your
earliest convenience.

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Franco Fichtner <franco at lastsummer.de> wrote:
>
>> On 21. Nov 2017, at 7:31 AM, User <kitchetech at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The updates install fine here even if the eol warning is showing. The uname
>> only updates if the kernel updates for patch levels.
>
> I find that hard to believe unless there is a caching issue with
> the EoL date, the return clearly uses "1" which means fail in
> the fetch phase.
>
> Ah, but then again this is more likely a side effect of using:
>
> # freebsd-update fetch install
>
> In any case, fetch should now fail if it fetched updates...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Franco
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