Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 19:32:36 +1000 From: Warren Liddell <shinjii@maydias.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: mcoyles@horbury.wakefield.sch.uk, FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk> Subject: Re: Upgrading from 6.x to 7.x Message-ID: <200808081932.36648.shinjii@maydias.com> In-Reply-To: <489C0D86.3080702@unsane.co.uk> References: <000501c8f890$185b8810$fd607e0a@Horbury.Internal> <200808080821.35476.shinjii@maydias.com> <489C0D86.3080702@unsane.co.uk>
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> no for versions of FreeBSD beyond 6.3 its in base and you dont need to > install it seperately to upgrade between versions. > freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade > seems to have an effect where 7.0-RELEASE no longer does. I have CCed > freebsd-stable@ on this to see if anyone knows if this is intended or a > mistake. > > > Vince # freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. The getting of the public key seems to be the issue no matter how i go about trying to upgrade .. so my question now is, why is this and are there other mirror sites that can be used ? Below is my Uname -a output if it has any relevance.. FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #11: Thu Aug 7 17:32:22 EST 2008 shinjii@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
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