Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 14:17:01 -0500 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update the src ? Message-ID: <20061125191701.GA93011@mail.scottro.net> In-Reply-To: <45686E34.5020809@freebsd.org> References: <C92C520A-2D71-467A-8938-D30E6F66A764@tuebingen.mpg.de> <45686E34.5020809@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 08:24:20AM -0800, Colin Percival wrote: > 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. There was actually a thread on this on bsdforums. I had the same problem on CURRENT and STABLE. I hadn't realized (at the time) that it didn't support STABLE. I've seen this question come up from time to time, on lists and private emails from friends. Mr. Percival, do you think it might be worthwhile adding a one or two line explanation that it doesn't support CURRENT, STABLE or PRERELEASE to either the man page or the config file (as those are the two places I think people are most likely to check.)? -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Willow: Nervous? Xander: No way. I'm full of that good old kamikazee spirit. Giles: Xander, just because this is never going to work, there's no need to be negative.
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