freebsd-update to 6.4-RELEASE doesn't work

Thomas Krause freebsd-stable at chef-ingenieur.de
Sun Dec 28 13:50:38 UTC 2008


Glen Barber schrieb:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Thomas Krause
> <freebsd-stable at chef-ingenieur.de> wrote:
>> Dear list,
>> I cannot upgrade my 6.3-RELEASE-p7/i386 to 6.4-RELEASE with freebsd-update.
>> I have run:
>>
>> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 6.4-RELEASE
>>
> 
> Is there any output from this?

Yes, many output. It ends with questions for merging some
files in /etc.

# cat /var/db/freebsd-update/tag
freebsd-update|i386|6.3-RELEASE|7|2868964ec97072204ddee738d59c1d2d206f786001ae3e438dbbc0058eb64f4f|1264982400

why there is no 6.4-RELEASE entry after running
"freebsd-update upgrade" ?


> 
>> and then
>>
>>  # freebsd-update install
>> No updates are available to install.
>> Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first.
>>
>> any ideas?
> 
> You could try `freebsd-update -r 6.4-RELEASE-p6 upgrade'.

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