Re: freebsd-update: where does it get its target info?

uname -r says
13.2-RELEASE-p10

I checked that, should have mentioned it.

freebsd-update fetch does what I expect but not with the cron argument.

On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 4:03 AM Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@freebsd.org> wrote:

> paul beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> writes:
> > I am seeing these messages from a freebsd-update cron job:
> >
> >     Fetching metadata signature for 12.4-RELEASE from
> update1.freebsd.org... done.
> >
> > but I am running 13.2-RELEASE-p10. If I run freebsd-update by hand, it
> seems to know what to do:
> >
> >     Fetching metadata signature for 13.2-RELEASE from
> update2.freebsd.org... done.
> >
> > my freebsd-update.conf file is untouched.  What is it looking at to
> > pull 12.4?
>
> It uses `uname -r`, which normally does `sysctl -n kern.osrelease` but
> can be overridden by the UNAME_r environment variable.
>
> DES
> --
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des@FreeBSD.org
>


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