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Old 14th January 2009
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On a 7.1-PRERELEASE machine I try

Code:
~>/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.
[1]    60951 exit 1     /usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch
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What's the status on freebsd-update? Am I doing something wrong?
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What do you want to update to?
If you want to go to 7.1, you should do the following

freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE

Accept merges...

reboot

freebsd-update install

reboot

freebsd-update install (AGAIN)

reboot
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I tried that and I get:

Code:
~>freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.
[1]    62387 exit 1     sudo freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
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Do I need to do it via source?
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Update /etc/resolv.conf and use DNS of your provider, not your router or smth.
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freebsd-update -r 7.1-RELEASE upgrade

(options first, commands later ..)
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Same thing. But what about the "Fetching metadata signature ... failed"-bit. Could it be that there is no metadata for 7.1-PRERELEASE?
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I think freebsd-update works on the -RELEASE branch only, so -PRERELEASE or -STABLE is unlikely to succeed. I think.
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Aha, so by following freebsd-update you might end up in a dead end? I started with 7.0 RELEASE and now I am stuck in 7.1-PRERELEASE... The solution is to do a fresh install or upgrading via source then?
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How did you end up with 7.1-PRERELEASE?
I guess you did a source update to the STABLE branch. I guess Dutch Daemon is right about only the RELEASE branch being supported by freebsd-update.

Somehow it makes sense, what metadata would you keep for the STABLE branch, one for each commit?
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Try the following:

Code:
% su
# env UNAME_r=7.1-PRERELEASE freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
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Same thing... However

Code:
env UNAME_r=7.0-RELEASE freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE
started fetching things but I didn't dare to let it finish, I'm not running 7.0. I think I'll do a fresh install instead.
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