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From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@c0mplx.org>
To: Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Upgrade to 9.1 failing
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Hi!

> Today, I was trying to upgrade a 7.0-rel box to 9.1 with freebsd-update,
> and I get :
[...]
> The update metadata is correctly signed, but
> failed an integrity check.
> Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.

You can not upgrade from 7.0 to 9.1 directly.

Use two intermediate steps, 7.4 and 8.3 and try if this works. Add
more intermediate steps, if one fails.

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