updating from 6.3 to 7, mirror problems

[andrew clarke]

On Thu 2008-10-30 22:38:58 UTC+1100, Alasdair Reed (alasdair at iprimus.com.au) wrote:

> I have been trying to update my system remotely using  freebsd-update.sh .

On 6.3 you should be using /usr/sbin/freebsd-update.  Can you ping
update1.freebsd.org?

$ ping -c 5 update1.FreeBSD.org
PING update1.FreeBSD.org (72.21.59.252): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=0 ttl=48 time=233.185 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=1 ttl=48 time=233.034 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=2 ttl=48 time=233.655 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=3 ttl=48 time=234.310 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.59.252: icmp_seq=4 ttl=48 time=233.445 ms

--- update1.FreeBSD.org ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 233.034/233.526/234.310/0.446 ms

You might also like to try the --debug switch:

$ sudo /usr/sbin/freebsd-update --debug fetch
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org...
latest.ssl                                    100% of  512  B  582 kBps
done.
Fetching metadata index...
344cfb64472cacb781688b5de744795f140233e84105c4100% of  225  B  234 kBps
done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 6.3-RELEASE-p5.