From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 18 20:11:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0FCC106568F for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:11:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D108FC1D for ; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:11:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.11]) by QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id UGXn1a0020EPchoA6LBLTB; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:11:20 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id ULBJ1a00T2P6wsM8MLBKT3; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:11:19 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=j4LSoCE2sUwA:10 a=7p6q5iij0X4A:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=SBy6dK7gfpzSEZK7MrIA:9 a=XJqgraVlbzwKWlL1TX6pC-6h6ccA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9A01CC9432; Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:11:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:11:18 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Markus Oestreicher Message-ID: <20081018201118.GA58082@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" , "cperciva@FreeBSD.org" Subject: Re: freebsd-update not working from 7.1-PRERELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:11:20 -0000 On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:41:52PM +0200, Markus Oestreicher wrote: > I installed 7.1-BETA-i386 from CD and used freebsd-update to get the latest > prerelease updates. > > This got me to the following version: > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD hostname 7.1-PRERELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Oct 5 12:15:12 UTC 2008 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > Now I wanted to go to BETA2, but freebsd-update does not work any more: > > # freebsd-update fetch > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-BET2 > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. > Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > I thought it was possible to upgrade this way up to 7.1-RELEASE? > > Any idea? I believe someone else recently reported something similar, and they changed their update server to something else, and it worked. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |