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FreeBSD Applying Security Updates Using pkg/freebsd-update

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Sep 15, 2019

Iam a new FreeBSD developer and user. I have root access to my VM running in AWS cloud. How do I update packages and apply security upgrades on FreeBSD? What is the procedure for applying security updates on FreeBSD?

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