On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:50:44PM +0100, Martin Laabs wrote: > Hi, > > On 01/02/13 01:21, Joe Altman wrote: > > Greetings, list. I have the following error; though I can load > > update5.FreeBSD.org in a browser: > > [...] > > maybe you use a release that is not supported by freebsd-update. Run > "uname -r" an compare the release with that you see when looking at > http://update4.freebsd.org/ > > If it is not there you can not use freebsd-update.
Yes; I realized that after I revisited the man page and handbook; somehow I managed to miss that initially. I'm currently using 9.1-PRERELEASE. Now I am left to wonder how that state will last; ISTM that eventually 9.1 will be supported by freebsd-update but I cannot tell when that might happen. Given that CVSUP is going away soon, I can't see reinstalling it just for this unnecessary upgrade. Since I appear to be stuck between things, I have three questions: 1) Is there any way to guesstimate how long until 9.1 is supported by freebsd-update? 2) Am I correct in assuming that there is no good reason (security concerns, for instance) to update right now? I seem to have no problems with my system; it runs fine. 3) Does freebsd-update really require at least a Gig of space in /var for a major or minor upgrade? If so, it looks like I may as well reinstall the OS, since I never anticipated needing that much in /var. At this point, given the amount of 'portupgrade -fr' I'll need to do, it might consume less time to start from scratch. Thanks for the followup, and best regards, Joe _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
