freebsd-update EoL "warning" prevents installing latest SAs

Franco Fichtner franco at lastsummer.de
Tue Nov 28 08:08:37 UTC 2017


> On 27. Nov 2017, at 9:42 PM, Xin LI <delphij at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

For vendors the model "3 months and move" on is not really an option,
but that is besides the point here.

It's not even that EoL is upon us.  It's that fetching updates for
a system that still has updates but ran into EoL before fetching
those updates will inevitably indicate a failure during fetch:

# freebsd-update fetch && freebsd-update install
# freebsd-update fetch install

This will not work, even though updates are fetched / pending.

In contrast, this works fine:

# freebsd-update fetch; freebsd-update install

I don't know how this is useful for scripting if we are supposed
to check errors, but in this case can't check for errors because
we require available updates to be installed.


Cheers,
Franco


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