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Date:      Sat, 25 Nov 2006 08:24:20 -0800
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        Henry Vogt <hv@tuebingen.mpg.de>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-update the src ?
Message-ID:  <45686E34.5020809@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <C92C520A-2D71-467A-8938-D30E6F66A764@tuebingen.mpg.de>
References:  <C92C520A-2D71-467A-8938-D30E6F66A764@tuebingen.mpg.de>

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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




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