Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:38:56 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Paul Macdonald <paul@ifdnrg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrade path from STABLE to RELEASE Message-ID: <4D26FB50.5010506@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D26F58D.3040208@ifdnrg.com> References: <4D26F58D.3040208@ifdnrg.com>
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On 07/01/2011 11:14, Paul Macdonald wrote:
> I have a box which i installed 7.0 stable on and i want to do a binary
> update to 8.1 REL, is this possible via the freebsd-update utility?
>=20
> freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> Fetching public key from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>=20
> (Its only on stable that it fails, works fine).
No. freebsd-update only works with -RELEASE branches, as you have
discovered for yourself.
Your choices are to backup and reinstall using a release version,
or to grab the latest -STABLE or -RELEASE sources and upgrade by
compiling from source. Note that last option still won't allow you to
use freebsd-update subsequently: you have to stick with the binaries
from the install media for that to work.
Cheers,
Matthew
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