Does this look reasonable (y/n)?

[balanga]

Every time I run freebsd-update I get errors which mean I have to keep re-running, and every time I get prompted about 'this' looking reasonable. Is there any way to suppress this msg and automatically answer 'y' ?

Also, is there any way to find out how many patches in total need to be fetched?

How do I tell how many files have already been fetched?

Also, are all the files in /var/db/freebsd-update/files/ all the files that have ever been fetched for every update that has been done? I have a number of subdirectories in the freebsd-update subdirectory all called install.******. How do I tell what they refer to?

 

[ralphbsz]

Every time I run freebsd-update I get errors ...

You have to tell us what the errors are, so we can help you fix them.

every time I get prompted about 'this' looking reasonable. Is there any way to suppress this msg and automatically answer 'y' ?

You could try piping "yes" into it.

I think that message is there for a reason. Matter-of-fact, you are supposed to read the release notes before updating (the man page says so).

 

[smithi]

Also, is there any way to find out how many patches in total need to be fetched?

How do I tell how many files have already been fetched?

Also, are all the files in /var/db/freebsd-update/files/ all the files that have ever been fetched for every update that has been done? I have a number of subdirectories in the freebsd-update subdirectory all called install.******. How do I tell what they refer to?

If you list the freebsd-update directory recursively in date order, it becomes immediately clear what was updated, when.

# ls -lrtR /var/db/freebsd-update/ | less -S

In any install.* directory, to see which files were updated then:

# diff -u INDEX-OLD INDEX-NEW | less -S