From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 09:46:34 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28D60106566B; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:46:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A7888FC0A; Fri, 8 Aug 2008 09:46:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vhoffman-macbook.lon.namesco.net (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id m789khaw075872 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 8 Aug 2008 10:46:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <489C15F6.4080507@unsane.co.uk> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:46:30 +0100 From: Vincent Hoffman User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Warren Liddell References: <000501c8f890$185b8810$fd607e0a@Horbury.Internal> <200808080821.35476.shinjii@maydias.com> <489C0D86.3080702@unsane.co.uk> <200808081932.36648.shinjii@maydias.com> In-Reply-To: <200808081932.36648.shinjii@maydias.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading from 6.x to 7.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:46:34 -0000 Warren Liddell wrote: >> no for versions of FreeBSD beyond 6.3 its in base and you dont need to >> install it seperately to upgrade between versions. >> freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade >> seems to have an effect where 7.0-RELEASE no longer does. I have CCed >> freebsd-stable@ on this to see if anyone knows if this is intended or a >> mistake. >> >> >> Vince >> > > # freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > The getting of the public key seems to be the issue no matter how i go about > trying to upgrade .. so my question now is, why is this and are there other > mirror sites that can be used ? > > Below is my Uname -a output if it has any relevance.. > > FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #11: Thu Aug 7 17:32:22 EST 2008 > shinjii@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > No idea if the fact you are on a -STABLE branch will matter (it could well, the box I tried to use the 7.0-RELEASE tag on was a -STABLE box too,) but my test seems to get different results to yours. Possibly an issue with the freebsd-update servers/mirrors? more likely that it doesnt support upgrading from an arbitrary point in the -STABLE tree. 10:05:58 ) 0 # freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/contrib src/crypto src/etc src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release src/rescue src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin src/usbin world/base world/catpages world/dict world/games world/info world/manpages world/proflibs The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: src/cddl src/compat world/doc Does this look reasonable (y/n)? n (10:06:53 ) 0 # uname -a FreeBSD lobster.unsane.co.uk 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 18 07:33:20 UTC 2008 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 I would upgrade to a -RELEASE branch from source then try again. Vince