Re: freebsd-update the src ?



Henry Vogt wrote:
After using the new portsnap utility for a while with great success, i
tried to update the (current) src tree with the
also new freebsd-update utility, but all i got (tried several times
within several weeks) is:

# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

You're probably running -CURRENT, -STABLE, or 6.2-PRERELEASE. FreeBSD
Update doesn't support those, since the name doesn't provide any useful
information about what you actually have installed.

Colin Percival

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