I am trying (as a novice) to follow the manual to keep my system up to date, but I am confused by the messages and various forum posts don't enlighten me.
When I do
freebsd-update fetch install
I get
After some googling I do this which I gather means the kernel is at p4 and userland is at p6. But the thread saying this doesn't go on to say if this means no update is required.
"No updates needed to update system to 11.1-RELEASE-p6." seems to imply I can just do the update but clearly this is not happening. Does this message mean "system is already at 11.1-RELEASE-p6"?
Repeating the commands gives identical messages except it mentions update5.freebsd.org or update6.freebsd.org. Every "freebsd-update install" ends with the message "Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first." which sends me round in circles.
Clues would be appreciated.
When I do
freebsd-update fetch install
I get
Code:
src component not installed, skipped
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 11.1-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
No updates needed to update system to 11.1-RELEASE-p6.
No updates are available to install.
Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
After some googling I do this which I gather means the kernel is at p4 and userland is at p6. But the thread saying this doesn't go on to say if this means no update is required.
Code:
# uname -rv
11.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Tue Nov 14 06:12:40 UTC 2017 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
# freebsd-version -k
11.1-RELEASE-p4
# freebsd-version -u
11.1-RELEASE-p6
"No updates needed to update system to 11.1-RELEASE-p6." seems to imply I can just do the update but clearly this is not happening. Does this message mean "system is already at 11.1-RELEASE-p6"?
Repeating the commands gives identical messages except it mentions update5.freebsd.org or update6.freebsd.org. Every "freebsd-update install" ends with the message "Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first." which sends me round in circles.
Clues would be appreciated.