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author | Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> | 2022-04-22 12:28:04 +0000 |
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committer | Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> | 2022-04-22 12:37:14 +0000 |
commit | 460ad988a9bb0e1aaf0da5fdb189cac752c42fe0 (patch) | |
tree | c0f6de140dfd0cc632a30655d928ca2f34454565 | |
parent | f69f0644833eca67d238f343d813fffe82e5b98a (diff) |
freebsd-update.8: Note availability of updates for ALPHA, BETA, and RC
While here, restructure the section about the binary updates
availability.
MFC after: 1 week
-rw-r--r-- | usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 | 42 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 b/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 index de4b5b4a4c0b..6d7fc792c6f1 100644 --- a/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 +++ b/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/freebsd-update.8 @@ -52,22 +52,42 @@ tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback binary updates to the .Fx base system. -Note that updates are only available if they are being built for the +.Sh BINARY UPDATES AVAILABILITY +Binary updates are not available for every single .Fx -release and architecture being used; in particular, the +version and architecture. +.Pp +In general, binary updates are available for ALPHA, BETA, RC, and RELEASE +versions of +.Fx , +e.g.: +.Bl -item -offset indent -compact +.It +.Fx 13.1-ALPHA3 +.It +.Fx 13.1-BETA2 +.It +.Fx 13.1-RC1 +.It +.Fx 13.1-RELEASE +.El +They are not available for branches such as PRERELEASE, STABLE, and CURRENT, +e.g.: +.Bl -item -offset indent -compact +.It +.Fx 13.0-PRERELEASE +.It +.Fx 13.1-STABLE +.It +.Fx 14.0-CURRENT +.El +.Pp +In particular, the .Fx Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in binary form by the .Fx -Release Engineering Team, e.g., -.Fx -11.2-RELEASE and -.Fx -12.0-RELEASE, but not -.Fx -11.2-STABLE or -.Fx -13.0-CURRENT. +Release Engineering Team. .Sh OPTIONS The following options are supported: .Bl -tag -width "-r newrelease" |