Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:57:17 -0500 From: "Webster, Andrew" <awebster@connectalk.com> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: freebsd-update fetching files failed Message-ID: <E80B6E4C598AF740810998498933A79C214E0D8BE3@mtlex07.connectalk.com> In-Reply-To: <C59A630C.7A04%fsb@thefsb.org> References: <4974E9D4.7080306@next.online.no> <C59A630C.7A04%fsb@thefsb.org>
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=20 > On 1/19/09 4:00 PM, "Tore Lund" <tl32@next.online.no> wrote: >=20 > > Tom Worster wrote: > >> a funny thing happened on wat to 7.1 today (from 7.0-p6): > >> > >> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE > > > > Have you tried "freebsd-update -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade"? > > > > I am not sure it makes a difference, but at any rate, as far as I know, > > this is the right syntax. >=20 > i was following these instructions: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html >=20 > but your suggestion is in line with the handbook: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrad= ing > -freebsdupdate.html#FREEBSDUPDATE-UPGRADE >=20 > in any case, repeating the command got me there in the end. or so it seem= s. >=20 I had the exact same problem upgrading 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE. It took= 5 tries to get all the files to download and apply. Definitely something = squirrelly there. Updating to patch levels however works flawlessly. One question After the upgrade, the /var/db/freebsd-update was filled with about 500MB o= f .gz files. I was wondering if these can be safely deleted? -- Andrew
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