freebsd security - Nov 2017 - freebsd-update EoL "warning" prevents installing latest SAs

The updates install fine here even if the eol warning is showing. The uname
only updates if the kernel updates for patch levels.

On Nov 21, 2017 12:06 AM, "Franco Fichtner" <franco at
lastsummer.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two systems running 11.0-p12, freebsd-update
> fetches the updates for 11.0-p15, displays all file
> changes but bails at the last second, skipping install,
> telling that the release is EoL:
>
> https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/blob/master/usr.sbin/
> freebsd-update/freebsd-update.sh#L2011
>
> Changing the return value to 0 seems to fix that, it's
> probably better to install these updates despite the
> EoL...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Franco
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> On 21. Nov 2017, at 7:31 AM, User <kitchetech at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The updates install fine here even if the eol warning is showing. The uname
> only updates if the kernel updates for patch levels.
I find that hard to believe unless there is a caching issue with
the EoL date, the return clearly uses "1" which means fail in
the fetch phase.

Ah, but then again this is more likely a side effect of using:

# freebsd-update fetch install

In any case, fetch should now fail if it fetched updates...


Cheers,
Franco