upgrading a 6.3 box using portsnap and freebsd-update

David Newman dnewman at networktest.com
Sun Jul 13 00:20:31 UTC 2008


On 7/12/08 4:11 PM, David wrote:

> 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.

That didn't work for me. But editing /etc/freebsd-update.conf to change 
'update.FreeBSD.org' to 'update1.freebsd.org' did the trick.

Thanks for your response!

dn



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