Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:44:17 +0300 From: Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> To: Andy Smith <a.smith@ukgrid.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-update on FreeBSD 6.x Message-ID: <49EF0311.4010809@otenet.gr> In-Reply-To: <20090422105555.14566qcf7y0xsuck@horde.ukgrid.net> References: <20090422105555.14566qcf7y0xsuck@horde.ukgrid.net>
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Andy Smith wrote: > Hi, > > when running "freebsd-update fetch" on FreeBSD 6.x I get the error: > > Fetching public key... > fetch: http://update.freebsd.org/i386/6.1/pub.key: No address record > Error fetching updates > I've seen the "No address record" in the past in few of my machines. The update.freebsd.org address is a pool of addresses actually and AFAIR there were some problems with DNS for some people. I don't recall the exact cause, but you will get over it by specifying a specific server in freebsd-update.conf, like update1.freebsd.org This may not be your only problem though. > > I've previously had a search around and compared the config file with > that present by default on FreeBSD 7.x (which works without any > hacking etc) but I never did work out what is wrong or what should be > in a good config file. For one thing the directory its looking in for > the pub.key seems to be hardcoded as "/i386/6.1/" or at least that > path is not present in my conf file, perhaps its possible to add an > additional line to the conf file to modify this... Can anyone point me > in the right direction? A quick visit to http://update.freebsd.org does not show this directory - although this maybe intentional. I suggest you try the server change and if you connect but still fail to get the key, then go on and hack the script. I don't have a 6.1 machine around, but freebsd-update is just a sh script and you should be able to find what's going on. There is nothing hardcoded in it, at least in the version distributed with 7.x. In fact I would try running the 7.x version on this system.
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