Bug 162427

Summary: 8.2-RELEASE-p4
Product: Base System Reporter: Tom Carpenter <tomc1>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-i386 (Nobody) <i386>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 8.2-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Tom Carpenter 2011-11-10 07:40:08 UTC 
Running "freebsd-update fetch" I get the following output:

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hopalong# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p4.
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I'm new to FreeBSD and after looking through the FreeBSD website I
think I may have answered my question, but thought I would say that
the message "No updates needed to update system to 8.2-RELEASE-p4"
seems a little contradictory: if "8.2-RELEASE-p4" isn't relevant for
my FreeBSD installation why even mention it.

As far as answering my question, i.e. 'how does one install 8.2-RELEASE-p4 on a system running 8.2-RELEASE-p3', if I understand the relevant security advisory,

http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-11:05.unix.asc

it looks like "8.2-RELEASE-p4" is an update for source, consequently, I'm getting the output that I am from freebsd-update because I don't have any source installed on my system.
Comment 1 Tom Carpenter 2011-11-10 07:50:56 UTC 
When I run sysinstall and attempt to install packages by
selecting "Configure | Packages | Main Site", I get the
following output

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           User Confirmation Requested

Warning:  Can't find the `8.2-RELEASE-p3' distribution on this
FTP server.  You may need to visit a different server for
the release you are trying to fetch or go to the Options
menu and to set the release name to explicitly match what's
available on ftp.freebsd.org (or set to "any").

Would you like to select another FTP server?

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-Tom Carpenter
Comment 2 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2011-11-10 21:55:22 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Hello, thank you for using FreeBSD! But this is not the place to ask 
these kind of questions. You are better of using the 
questions@FreeBSD.org mailing list. Since this is not a problem but an 
user question, I will be closing this PR.