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On 05/12/2008, at 12:14 PM, Joan Picanyol i Puig wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Apparently 7.1-PRERELEASE has been pulled from freebsd-update's server
> while I was being lazy:
>
> calvin% sudo freebsd-update --debug upgrade -r 7.1-BETA2
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from
> update1.FreeBSD.org...
> fetch: http://update1.FreeBSD.org/7.1-PRERELEASE/i386/latest.ssl:  
> Not Found
> failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.


Yeah, this seems to be a problem in freebsd-update. You can workaround  
like this:

# env UNAME_r=7.1-BETA freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-BETA2


Something got mixed up in the naming of the releases and freebsd- 
update gets confused.


Ari Maniatis


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