Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 14:31:21 -0700 From: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org> To: Markus Oestreicher <m.oe@x-trader.de> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update not working from 7.1-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <48FA55A9.9090409@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <C5BED61957DEAB46AA2E570174A09B3C52E3D3B00F@QHEXMBOX1.hosting.inetserver.de> References: <C5BED61957DEAB46AA2E570174A09B3C52E3D3B00F@QHEXMBOX1.hosting.inetserver.de>
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Markus Oestreicher wrote: > 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/sys/GENERIC i386 Hmm. I wonder why that's -PRERELEASE- instead of -BETA-. There might be a bug in the FreeBSD Update build code here... > Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. Right, FreeBSD Update thinks you're running 7.1-PRERELEASE (i.e., "somewhere recent on the 7-STABLE branch, but we don't know exactly where") instead of 7.1-BETA (which is a very specific point on the branch -- specific enough that FreeBSD Update can figure out what your system should have installed and how to update it). The best solution here is to make FreeBSD Update realize that you're running 7.1-BETA: # env UNAME_r=7.1-BETA freebsd-update [...] Colin Percival
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