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Date:      Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:41:52 +0200
From:      Markus Oestreicher <m.oe@x-trader.de>
To:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "cperciva@FreeBSD.org" <cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   freebsd-update not working from 7.1-PRERELEASE
Message-ID:  <C5BED61957DEAB46AA2E570174A09B3C52E3D3B00F@QHEXMBOX1.hosting.inetserver.de>

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I installed 7.1-BETA-i386 from CD and used freebsd-update to get the latest
prerelease updates.

This got me to the following version:

$ uname -a
FreeBSD hostname 7.1-PRERELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Oct  5=
 12:15:12 UTC 2008     root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/s=
ys/GENERIC  i386


Now I wanted to go to BETA2, but freebsd-update does not work any more:

# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... =
failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-BET2
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... =
failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

I thought it was possible to upgrade this way up to 7.1-RELEASE?

Any idea?

Best Regards,
Markus



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