updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

[andrew clarke]

On Fri 2008-10-31 08:11:49 UTC+1100, alasdair at iprimus.com.au (alasdair at iprimus.com.au) wrote:

> localhost# /usr/sbin/freebsd-update --debug fetch
> Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org...
> fetch: http://update1.FreeBSD.org/6.3-STABLE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found

Ah, this is not a DNS problem.

You are trying to run freebsd-update from 6.3-STABLE.  This isn't
supported.  From the freebsd-update(8) manpage:

"The FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in
binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, e.g., FreeBSD
6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE or FreeBSD
7.0-CURRENT."