Upgrade to 6.3R failed (with freebsd-update.sh)

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:24:43AM +0100, Thomas Krause wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> as described in http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/announce.html
> I tried a binary upgrade to 6.3R. But the command
>
> #  sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 6.3-RELEASE upgrade
>
> failed with
>
> 10....2520....2530....2540....2550....2560....2570....2580....2590....2600....2610....2620....2630....2640... 
> done.
> Applying patches... done.
> Fetching 1587 files... failed.
>
> Any ideas how to perform the upgrade?

Does freebsd-update use ftp://ftp.freebsd.org at all?  If so, I'm
willing to bet the failure is caused by the FTP server being overloaded.
With the announcement of 7.0-RELEASE, people are hammering the server;
the few times I've tried to FTP to it, it's been returning "maximum
number of connections exceeded" or something along those lines.

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