upgrading a 6.3 box using portsnap and freebsd-update

[David Newman]

On 7/12/08 9:55 AM, RW wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:25:34 -0700
> David Newman <dnewman at networktest.com> wrote:
> 
>> ===>>> The textproc/p5-Text-ParseWords port has been deleted: Module 
>> included in
>>   core perl
>> ===>>> Aborting update
>>
>> Running "pkg_delete" reveals dependencies:
>>
>> pkg_delete: package 'p5-Text-ParseWords-3.1' is required by these
>> other packages
>> and may not be deinstalled:
>> p5-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.19
>> p5-Module-Build-0.28.08_2
>>
>> How to remedy?
> 
> pkg_delete -f

Yes, that cleared the portsnap issue. Many thanks!

My remaining issue with with freebsd-update:

mail# freebsd-update fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from update.FreeBSD.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

Yet a FreeBSD-7.0 machine on the same subnet with an identical 
/etc/freebsd-update.conf file runs fine.

How to debug?

thanks again

dn