From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 25 06:29:28 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A8C3ED92; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ran.psg.com (ran.psg.com [IPv6:2001:418:8006::18]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 15AE1DC8; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=ryuu.psg.com.psg.com) by ran.psg.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1WSKrS-0005qk-1q; Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:29:22 +0000 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 15:29:23 +0900 Message-ID: From: Randy Bush To: Royce Williams Subject: Re: reason 23 why we've moved to linux In-Reply-To: References: <53287821.4040209@freebsd.org> <5328A03A.3000305@freebsd.org> <532DD2EB.1080204@freebsd.org> <532DD64B.9000905@freebsd.org> <532DD978.3010502@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/22.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Alfred Perlstein , FreeBSD Mailing List , Colin Percival X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 06:29:28 -0000 Royce Williams wrote: > > Colin, adding you to this thread with proposed patch (two options) for > freebsd-update, below. > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > >> Honest question, have you been building things from source under > >> debian's ports or are you using their version of "pkg"? > > > > the latter > > > > and i have two 9 systems where i try to use freebsd-update. also a > > time-consuming rabbit hole leading nowhere pleasant. e.g. > > > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE-p3 > > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done. > > Fetching metadata index... done. > > Inspecting system... done. > > > > The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: > > kernel/generic world/base world/doc world/games world/lib32 > > > > The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: > > > > Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y > > > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update5.freebsd.org... failed. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update2.freebsd.org... failed. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update3.freebsd.org... failed. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update4.freebsd.org... failed. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update6.freebsd.org... failed. > > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > Randy, you're not the first to specify a patch level in the target > release version for freebsd-update. This failure mode could be more > friendly. raid0.dfw.rg.net:/root# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE freebsd-update: Cannot upgrade from 9.2-RELEASE to itself raid0.dfw.rg.net:/root# freebsd-update upgrade freebsd-update: Release target must be specified via -r option. randy