Joe Altman wrote:
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
Heres a work around that should work.
For your 9.1-PRERELEASE you can temporary change that so freebsd-update
will work for you.
Issue this console command on your system.
setenv UNAME_r "9.0-RELEASE"
Now when you run freebsd-update it will think your system is 9.0-RELEASE
and go through with the update to 9.1-RELEASE.
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