From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 4 17:08:22 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 B3217106566B for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from awebster@connectalk.com) Received: from esafe.connectalk.com (esafe.connectalk.com [204.19.165.17]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 66B938FC18 for ; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 17:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from awebster@connectalk.com) Received: from mtlex07.connectalk.com ([10.125.204.19]) by eSafe SMTP Relay 1228483361; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 11:54:08 -0500 Received: from mtlex07.connectalk.com ([10.125.204.19]) by mtlex07.connectalk.com ([10.125.204.19]) with mapi; Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:57:19 -0500 From: "Webster, Andrew" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:57:17 -0500 Thread-Topic: freebsd-update fetching files failed Thread-Index: Acl6gdwrFF3tcOXOzk6Py/vJhvwAXgMZ3B9A Message-ID: References: <4974E9D4.7080306@next.online.no> In-Reply-To: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-ESAFE-STATUS: Mail allowed X-ESAFE-DETAILS: 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: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:08:24 -0000 =20 > On 1/19/09 4:00 PM, "Tore Lund" wrote: >=20 > > 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. >=20 > i was following these instructions: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html >=20 > but your suggestion is in line with the handbook: >=20 > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrad= ing > -freebsdupdate.html#FREEBSDUPDATE-UPGRADE >=20 > in any case, repeating the command got me there in the end. or so it seem= s. >=20 I had the exact same problem upgrading 7.0-RELEASE to 7.1-RELEASE. It took= 5 tries to get all the files to download and apply. Definitely something = squirrelly there. Updating to patch levels however works flawlessly. One question After the upgrade, the /var/db/freebsd-update was filled with about 500MB o= f .gz files. I was wondering if these can be safely deleted? -- Andrew