On Feb 20, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Paul Mather <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Feb 20, 2013, at 4:29 AM, Fleuriot Damien <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Here, I think this is what you're looking for:
>> 
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html
>> 
>> 
>> You should be able to move from 9.1-RELEASE to 9-STABLE with freebsd-update 
>> :)
> 
> 
> Except that the freebsd-update(8) man page includes the following:
> 
> DESCRIPTION
> 
>     The freebsd-update tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback binary
>     updates to the FreeBSD base system.  Note that updates are only available
>     if they are being built for the FreeBSD release and architecture being
>     used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for
>     releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team,
>     e.g., FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE and FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE, but not FreeBSD
>     6.3-STABLE or FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT.
> 
> 
> In other words, you can't use it to track -STABLE or -CURRENT.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Paul.


Ewww epic fail on my part.

I only do source updates here hence the confusion.

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