From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 22:04:17 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 478951065670 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:04:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from smtp234.iad.emailsrvr.com (smtp234.iad.emailsrvr.com [207.97.245.234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F8BB8FC1D for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:04:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fsb@thefsb.org) Received: from relay13.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 5AD901CE5EE; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:04:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by relay13.relay.iad.mlsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: fsb-AT-thefsb.org) with ESMTPSA id 247B01CF21E; Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:04:16 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/12.10.0.080409 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 17:04:12 -0500 From: Tom Worster To: Tore Lund Message-ID: Thread-Topic: freebsd-update fetching files failed Thread-Index: Acl6gdwrFF3tcOXOzk6Py/vJhvwAXg== In-Reply-To: <4974E9D4.7080306@next.online.no> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update fetching files failed X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:04:17 -0000 On 1/19/09 4:00 PM, "Tore Lund" wrote: > 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. i was following these instructions: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html but your suggestion is in line with the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading -freebsdupdate.html#FREEBSDUPDATE-UPGRADE in any case, repeating the command got me there in the end. or so it seems.