Royce Williams <ro...@tycho.org> wrote: > > Colin, adding you to this thread with proposed patch (two options) for > freebsd-update, below. > > On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > >> Honest question, have you been building things from source under > >> debian's ports or are you using their version of "pkg"? > > > > the latter > > > > and i have two 9 systems where i try to use freebsd-update. also a > > time-consuming rabbit hole leading nowhere pleasant. e.g. > > > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE-p3 > > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... > > done. > > Fetching metadata index... done. > > Inspecting system... done. > > > > The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: > > kernel/generic world/base world/doc world/games world/lib32 > > > > The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: > > > > Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y > > > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update5.freebsd.org... > > failed. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update2.freebsd.org... > > failed. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update3.freebsd.org... > > failed. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update4.freebsd.org... > > failed. > > Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update6.freebsd.org... > > failed. > > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > Randy, you're not the first to specify a patch level in the target > release version for freebsd-update. This failure mode could be more > friendly.
raid0.dfw.rg.net:/root# freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE freebsd-update: Cannot upgrade from 9.2-RELEASE to itself raid0.dfw.rg.net:/root# freebsd-update upgrade freebsd-update: Release target must be specified via -r option. randy _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
