From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 13:48:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E743537B401 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 13:48:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mwinf0101.wanadoo.fr (smtp8.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA07443F93 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 13:48:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zezaz@chez.com) Received: from chez.com (unknown [217.128.142.230]) by mwinf0101.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 9A819C0000E9 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 22:48:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3ED12C07.4080102@chez.com> Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 22:48:07 +0200 From: Xavier de Labouret User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3.1) Gecko/20030428 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Tracking 4-stable rather than 4.8-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 20:48:45 -0000 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.