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Date:      Wed, 2 Dec 2009 20:48:28 +0100
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Eirik_=D8verby?= <ltning@anduin.net>
To:        Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org, Matthew Herzog <matthew.herzog@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: freebsd-update
Message-ID:  <1AC0EF6B-B145-4A80-920D-7326A95B51D5@anduin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091202194057.GA94044@citylink.fud.org.nz>
References:  <20091202141116.GM4834@borusse.borussiapark> <4B16A237.9020903@gmail.com> <AB623B68-FF43-4659-B9C7-ACC9F3C84C04@anduin.net> <20091202194057.GA94044@citylink.fud.org.nz>

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On Dec 2, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Andrew Thompson wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:13:45PM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote:
>> On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:21 PM, Matthew Herzog wrote:
>>=20
>>> On 12/02/2009 09:11 AM, Alex Huth wrote:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>=20
>>>> Is it no longer possible to update minor 6.x releases to 6.3 or 6.4 =
with the
>>>> script mentioned on the announcement off 6.3?
>>>>=20
>>>> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html
>>>>=20
>>>> Using it i get the error:
>>>>=20
>>>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
>>>> Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>>>> Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>>>> Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
>>>> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>>>=20
>>> It fails for me too. I tried to update from 7.2 (i386) to 8.0.
>>> I got the same error. I tried importing the public key manually and =
that failed too.
>>>=20
>>> Boo.
>> Your uname -a will say you're running -STABLE, not =
-RELEASE-something. This is a result of using source upgrades to =
anything but RELENG_6_X in the past. Which, in turn, is why =
freebsd-update fails.
>>=20
>> Move /usr/bin/uname out of the way, create a shell script like so:
>>=20
>> ---
>> #!/bin/sh
>> /usr/bin/uname.org $* | sed s/STABLE/RELEASE/g
>> ---
>>=20
>> and chmod 755 it. Then try again. I know, it's ugly, and it might get =
you into trouble. But it Worked For Me.
>>=20
>> Oh and I suppose this belongs on the -users or -stable list?
>=20
> For the sake of the archives, uname already supports overriding the =
info
> through environment variables. You set UNAME_x were 'x' is the uname
> flag you want to overwrite (see man page).

Ok. Duh. Me needs to RTFM more often. Thanks, and sorry. ;)


> % uname -r    =20
> 9.0-CURRENT
> % export UNAME_r=3D7.2-RELEASE
> % uname -r
> 7.2-RELEASE
>=20
>=20
> Andrew
>=20




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