Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:11:18 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Markus Oestreicher <m.oe@x-trader.de> Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "cperciva@FreeBSD.org" <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: freebsd-update not working from 7.1-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <20081018201118.GA58082@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <C5BED61957DEAB46AA2E570174A09B3C52E3D3B00F@QHEXMBOX1.hosting.inetserver.de> References: <C5BED61957DEAB46AA2E570174A09B3C52E3D3B00F@QHEXMBOX1.hosting.inetserver.de>
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On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:41:52PM +0200, Markus Oestreicher wrote: > I installed 7.1-BETA-i386 from CD and used freebsd-update to get the latest > prerelease updates. > > This got me to the following version: > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD hostname 7.1-PRERELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Oct 5 12:15:12 UTC 2008 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > Now I wanted to go to BETA2, but freebsd-update does not work any more: > > # freebsd-update fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-BET2 > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > I thought it was possible to upgrade this way up to 7.1-RELEASE? > > Any idea? I believe someone else recently reported something similar, and they changed their update server to something else, and it worked. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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