Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 22:48:07 +0200 From: Xavier de Labouret <zezaz@chez.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable Message-ID: <3ED12C07.4080102@chez.com>
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Hi, I would like to follow 4-stable on my FreeBSD box, and i can't fetch binaries from /stand/sysinstall. Can anyone help me? Here is how i did: 1) I installed 4.8-RELEASE from CD, 2) I used cvsup to upgrade. For this i used the stable-supfile as shown in the Handbook. => My OS version as shown by 'uname -a' and '/stand/sysinstall' is "4.8-STABLE". It looks like "4.8-STABLE" is slightly different from "4-STABLE": my problem is, i can't install up-to-date packaged binaries with this release. (Precision: I know i could recompile everything manually from ports, but, as i like many gory like mozilla, gnome, openoffice... it would take many days dedicated to recompilation on my single PC.) So, i tried to upgrade from within '/stand/sysinstall' by FTP. - First, it complained that it can't find the "4.8-STABLE" distribution on my FTP source (which can be any FreeBSD server or mirror) - So, i tried to force the Release Version in the Options menu to 4-STABLE. No more luck, same error message... - As the error message suggested me to put "any" in the Release Version in the Options, i tried to. The error message got different then ("unable to get packages/INDEX from selected media"). But it kept unsuccessful. I am a little puzzled, because i feel like i followed the instructions, but it does not work as expected. I must have missed something. But what? Thank you in advance for showing me what i did wrong! Xavier de Labouret PS: thank you for CC:ing me also, as i am not a subscriber to freebsd-stable@freebsd.org.
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