On 07/01/2011 11:14, Paul Macdonald wrote: > I have a box which i installed 7.0 stable on and i want to do a binary > update to 8.1 REL, is this possible via the freebsd-update utility? > > freebsd-update -r 8.1-RELEASE upgrade > Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. > Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. > Fetching public key from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. > No mirrors remaining, giving up. > > (Its only on stable that it fails, works fine).
No. freebsd-update only works with -RELEASE branches, as you have
discovered for yourself.
Your choices are to backup and reinstall using a release version,
or to grab the latest -STABLE or -RELEASE sources and upgrade by
compiling from source. Note that last option still won't allow you to
use freebsd-update subsequently: you have to stick with the binaries
from the install media for that to work.
Cheers,
Matthew
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