freebsd-update question

[Winston]

Is there anything about freebsd-update that cares what the patch level
was when the system was last booted, versus the patch level of the files
installed by freebsd-update fetch/install?

When security updates don't involve the kernel itself, I'd like to think
that freebsd-update fetch and install plus restarting any affected
processes would suffice, particularly for anyone running a server. I
ask because freebsd-update is saying "9.0-RELEASE-p3 HAS PASSED ITS
END-OF-LIFE" even though I'm up to -p7 (as installed by freebsd-update),
and because freebsd-update is still not fetching an update for the NFS
READDIR problem.

Do I have to reboot just to get freebsd-update to fetch the update?

Thanks in advance!
-WBE

[Christian Weisgerber]

Winston <w...@UBEBLOCK.psr.com.invalid> wrote:

> I ask because freebsd-update is saying "9.0-RELEASE-p3 HAS PASSED ITS
> END-OF-LIFE" even though I'm up to -p7 (as installed by freebsd-update),
> and because freebsd-update is still not fetching an update for the NFS
> READDIR problem.

FreeBSD 9.0 is no longer supported. From the original release
announcement: "The FreeBSD Security Team currently plans to support
FreeBSD 9.0 until January 31st, 2013."

http://www.freebsd.org/security/

You should update the system to 9.1.

--
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de

[Winston]

na...@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) kindly replied:

> FreeBSD 9.0 is no longer supported.

...

> http://www.freebsd.org/security/
>
> You should update the system to 9.1.

Ah. Thank you very much for that reply!
I was consistently misunderstanding the announcements
as meaning something slightly different. Thanks!
-WBE