Allow freebsd-update to install binary updates to the FreeBSD base system
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Description
> The freebsd-update tool is used to fetch, install, and rollback binary updates to the FreeBSD base system.
```
% sudo freebsd-update fetch
src component not installed, skipped
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update2.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata signature for 12.1-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Fetching 2 metadata files... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.
Fetching 343 patches.....10....20....30....40....50....60....70....80....90....100....110....120....130....140....150....160....170....180....190....200....210....220....230....240....250....260....270....280....290....300....310....320....330....340. done.
Applying patches...
WARNING: FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE.
Any security issues discovered after Sun Jan 31 01:00:00 CET 2021
will not have been corrected.
% sudo freebsd-update install
src component not installed, skipped
Installing updates... done.
```
We should probably automatically create a ZFS Boot Environment before doing this.
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