determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Tom Worster
to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only RELEASE) i do: 1 - check the 1st 4 fields of the tag file in the freebsd-update working dir. 2 - check the output of freebsd-update IDS. is it the case that freebsd-update IDS checks base system status relative to what's

Re: determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Jason Helfman
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only RELEASE) i do: 1 - check the 1st 4 fields of the tag file in the freebsd-update working dir. Just because the 1st 4 fields are populated, doesn't

Re: determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Tom Worster
thanks for the answers, jason. two more questions below. On 3/4/11 1:09 PM, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: to determine roughly where a server is in its updates (we're running only RELEASE) i do: 1 - check the 1st 4

Re: determining freebsd-update status

2011-03-04 Thread Jason Helfman
On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 02:05:15PM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: thanks for the answers, jason. two more questions below. np On 3/4/11 1:09 PM, Jason Helfman jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:11AM -0500, Tom Worster thus spake: to determine roughly where a server is