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Date:      Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:53:45 -0500
From:      "Zane C. B-H." <v.velox@vvelox.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd-update from recent 8-STABLE to 9.0-RELEASE issues
Message-ID:  <20120625065345.56dcf2fd@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120625122612.6f704f9b@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <20120625042118.1cc42ab2@vixen42.vulpes.vvelox.net> <20120625122612.6f704f9b@gumby.homeunix.com>

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On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 12:26:12 +0100
RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 04:21:18 -0500
> Zane C. B-H. wrote:
> 
> > Howdy!
> > 
> > Any one have any idea what is going on below?
> > 
> > [root@shiela]/root# uname -a
> > FreeBSD shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net 8.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD
> > 8.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Feb 25 04:55:35 CST 2012
> > kitsune@shiela.vulpes.vvelox.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/sheila
> > amd64 [root@shiela]/root# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade
> > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> > Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching
> > public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public
> > key from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining,
> > giving up. Exit 1 [root@shiela]/root#
> 
> freebsd-update doesn't support development branches, you have to go
> from security branch to security branch.

I know it can't be used to update to stable, but I've not encountered
any thing in the documentation saying it can't be used to update from
stable it to a release.




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