upgrading a 6.3 box using portsnap and freebsd-update

[David]

  upgrading a 6.3 box using portsnap and freebsd-update

*David Newman* dnewman at networktest.com 
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/Sat Jul 12 17:52:48 UTC 2008/

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On 7/12/08 9:55 AM, RW wrote:
>/ On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:25:34 -0700
/>/ David Newman <dnewman at networktest.com <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>> 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


The same thing happened to me when I CTRL-C'ed the update process. It was driving me nuts until I thought 
of the good old notion, "turn it off and then turn it back on".

So, and this worked for me, delete everything in the freebsd-update db directory, /var/db/freebsd-update.
It does involve re-downloading a lot of stuff. In hindsight, move the sub-directory "files" else where and then re-populate once it is working.

Good Luck !


David



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