From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 25 16:27:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1153316A407 for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:27:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mo2so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4577243E4B for ; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:24:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.50]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J9A001RSO8Q83B0@l-daemon> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:24:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml2so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.146]) by pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTP id <0J9A001WHO8Q6Q00@pd4mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:24:26 -0700 (MST) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0J9A00DKVO8PMS90@l-daemon> for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 09:24:26 -0700 (MST) Received: (qmail 7263 invoked from network); Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:24:21 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?127.0.0.1?) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:24:21 +0000 Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:24:20 -0800 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: To: Henry Vogt Message-id: <45686E34.5020809@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060416) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update the src ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 16:27:57 -0000 Henry Vogt wrote: > After using the new portsnap utility for a while with great success, i > tried to update the (current) src tree with the > also new freebsd-update utility, but all i got (tried several times > within several weeks) is: > > # freebsd-update fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. You're probably running -CURRENT, -STABLE, or 6.2-PRERELEASE. FreeBSD Update doesn't support those, since the name doesn't provide any useful information about what you actually have installed. Colin Percival