freebsd-update the src ?

[Colin Percival]

Henry Vogt wrote:
> After using the new portsnap utility for a while with great success, i
> tried to update the (current) src tree with the
> also new freebsd-update utility, but  all i got (tried several times
> within several weeks) is:
> 
> # freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
> Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.

You're probably running -CURRENT, -STABLE, or 6.2-PRERELEASE.  FreeBSD
Update doesn't support those, since the name doesn't provide any useful
information about what you actually have installed.

Colin Percival