Problem upgrading
Jim Trigg
jtrigg at spamcop.net
Thu Oct 18 16:31:42 UTC 2012
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 02:14:10PM -0700, Timothy Snowberger wrote:
> On 10/17/2012 7:27 AM, Jim Trigg wrote:
> > Any suggestions on how to fix this?
> >
> > ---
> > argent(1) /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade
> > Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y
> > ...
> > Fetching metadata signature for 9.0-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done.
> > Fetching metadata index... done.
> > Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
> > Applying metadata patches... done.
> > Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
> >
> > The update metadata is correctly signed, but
> > failed an integrity check.
> > Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.
>
> sed -i '' -e 's/=_/=%@_/' /usr/sbin/freebsd-update
>
> See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064321.html
>
> "First, a minor change must be made to the freebsd-update code in order
> for it to accept file names appearing in FreeBSD 9.0 which contain the '%'
> and '@' characters; without this change, freebsd-update will error out
> with the message "The update metadata is correctly signed, but failed an
> integrity check". "
This fixed it.
Thanks,
Jim
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