Sometimes users want to use freebsd-update(8) in a non-interactive way and
what they often miss is that they have to set PAGER to cat(1) in order to
avoid interactive prompts from less(1).
MFC after: 4 weeks
`freebsd-update updatesready' can be used to check if there are any pending
fetched updates that can be installed.
`freebsd-update showconfig' writes freebsd-update's configuration to
stdout.
This also changes the exit code of `freebsd-update install' to 2 in case
there are no updates pending to be installed and there wasn't a fetch phase
in the same invocation. This allows scripts to tell apart these error
conditions without breaking existing jail managers.
See freebsd-update(8) for details.
PR: 240757, 240177, 229346
Reviewed by: manpages (bcr), sectam (emaste), yuripv
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21473
igor follows American style guides in the belief that abbreviations i.e.
and e.g. are always followed by a comma. Make that change now so that
future updates to freebsd-update.8 do not complain about this.
Submitted by: grembo
Event: EuroBSDCon Norway FreeBSD DevSummit
Improve help text to include example release numbers for reference
and clarify the -F option.
PR: 231185, 214619
Submitted by: Gerald Aryeetey <aryeeteygerald_rogers.com>
Reviewed by: delphij, rgrimes
MFC after: 1 month
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18944
This option tells freebsd-update to act as if it is running a specific
release instead of querying the kernel. In particular, this can be
useful when upgrading jails.
Requested by: EuroBSDCon devsummit jails session
Tested by: allanjude
MFC after: 1 week
Safetly belt can be disabled with the -F flag
Additionally, add the --not-running-from-cron flag they bypasses the TTY requirement, and allows freebsd-update to be invoked by orchestration frameworks, scripts, or otherwise.
PR: 196760
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D1550
Reviewed by: cperciva, delphij
Approved by: bcr (mentor), rodrigc (src)
MFC after: 1 month
Relnotes: yes
Sponsored by: ScaleEngine Inc.
from the PR, but the version numbers reflect the newer ones from
http://security.freebsd.org/#sup
PR: docs/145227
Submitted by: Glen Barber (glen dot j dot barber at gmail dot com)
Reviewed by: cperciva
Mentored by: jkois
MFC after: 1 week
version of freebsd-update, but I took it out when I rewrote everything
and added FreeBSD Update to the base system because I didn't think it
was useful. It turns out that quite a few people liked it and wanted
it back.
Requested by: Royce Williams + others
MFC after: 2 weeks
upgrading to new releases. Important parts of this code include
* automatically determining which optional components (e.g., src,
info, proflibs) are installed.
* merging changes in files which are modified locally and have
changed between the currently running and new release.
* prompting the user to rebuild all 3rd party software before
deleting old shared libraries.
Yes, this is compatible with "freebsd-update rollback" -- you can
test a new -BETA and roll back to the old release if you don't
like it.
Subject to re@ approval, this will be MFCed before 7.0-BETA3 and
6.3-RC1.
MFC after: 2 days
