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authorcperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-26 05:49:06 +0000
committercperciva <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-26 05:49:06 +0000
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Add a sentence to the DESCRIPTION noting that updates aren't available
for -STABLE or -CURRENT. Inspired by submission from: Scott Robbins MFC after: 3 days
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 b/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8
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+++ b/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8
@@ -45,6 +45,21 @@ The
.Nm
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
+.Fx
+Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in binary form
+by the
+.Fx
+Release Engineering Team, e.g.,
+.Fx
+6.1-RELEASE and
+.Fx
+6.2-RC1, but not
+.Fx
+6.2-STABLE or
+.Fx
+7.0-CURRENT.
.Sh OPTIONS
The following options are supported
.Bl -tag -width "-f conffile"
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