Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 16:57:40 +0000 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating the system and ports Message-ID: <20100309165740.1f2b4ff8@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20100309160734.GB1190@gmail.com> References: <20100309160734.GB1190@gmail.com>
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On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 23:07:34 +0700 Pongthep Kulkrisada <ptkrisada@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folk, > > Further to previous suggestion in this mailing list, > I have just updated from FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE to the latest patch. > > I firstly use freebsd-update but it failed ... > # freebsd-update fetch > Lookin up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found > Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed > Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed > Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed > Give up, no remaining mirrors. > (I didn't run script(1), I hard typed from my memory.) > > I tried many times, the results were always the same. > I don't know what happen. > > So I switch to update from source. > REL_ENG_8_0 is specified in stable-supfile. After csup and that should be RELENG_8_0 > 1. What is the difference between RELEASE and STABLE? Stable is a stable development branch, if you want to use freebsd-update you need to use a proper release security branch.
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