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? Best Regards, Markus
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 |
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 i386Hmm. I wonder why that's -PRERELEASE- instead of -BETA-. There might be a bug in the FreeBSD Update build code here...> Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.Right, FreeBSD Update thinks you're running 7.1-PRERELEASE (i.e., "somewhere recent on the 7-STABLE branch, but we don't know exactly where") instead of 7.1-BETA (which is a very specific point on the branch -- specific enough that FreeBSD Update can figure out what your system should have installed and how to update it). The best solution here is to make FreeBSD Update realize that you're running 7.1-BETA: # env UNAME_r=7.1-BETA freebsd-update [...] Colin Percival