Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:38:59 +0100 From: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@buffalo.edu> Cc: stable-list freebsd <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.2-RC3/7.4-RC3 Available... Message-ID: <4D4B2E83.9090301@janh.de> In-Reply-To: <1296763905.31910.37.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1296763905.31910.37.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Ken Smith wrote: > The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 > systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 8.0-RELEASE, > 8.1-RELEASE, 8.2-BETA1, 8.2-RC1 or 8.2-RC2 can upgrade as follows: > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RC3 While it does work on i386, it fails on amd64: Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RC3 from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RC3 from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RC3 from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RC3 from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. In contrast to the other releases, betas, and candidates, there is no amd64 directory listed for 8.2-RC3, only i386: http://update4.freebsd.org/8.2-RC3/ (It has been this way for a few days now, but since there was no announcement, I thought it was still being worked on.) Cheers, Jan Henrik
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