Freebsd-update question

[Richard Mahlerwein]

Thanks for the help, I figured out the [likely] answer and included it at the bottom.

--- On Sat, 8/8/09, Richard Mahlerwein <mahlerrd at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Richard Mahlerwein <mahlerrd at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Date: Saturday, August 8, 2009, 2:06 PM
> [random snippage all over]
> > > From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Re: Freebsd-update question
> > > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:25 AM,
> > > Richard Mahlerwein<mahlerrd at yahoo.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > mobius# freebsd-update -s update.freebsd.org fetch
> > > Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
> > > Fetching public key from update.freebsd.org... failed.
> > > No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> > >
> > > mobius# uname -a
> > > FreeBSD mobius 7.1-PRERELEASE
> >  FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep 5 02:34:20 CDT 2008  
> >  rich at mobius.mahlerwein.homeip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> >  i386
> >
> >
> > I was able to get a mirror using:
> >
> > freebsd-update -r 7.1-PRERELEASE fetch
> >
> > --
> > Glen Barber
> >
>
> mobius# freebsd-update -r 7.1-PRERELEASE fetch
> Looking up update1.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
>
> I mean, I'd just update it the old fashioned way, but now
> I'm curious (and, let's face it, I've not updated it in
> quite a while, so I suspect another day or two won't hurt
> any more).  I'm about to add a "verbose" option to
> freebsd-update and see if I can get it to print out in more
> detail what it's actually trying to do...
>

Found what I believe to be the answer, and yes it's mostly user error.  :)

Your test above notwithstanding, it seem the PRERELEASE isn't supported for freebsd-update, or at least it's not signed.  I found the source to freebsd-update (it's a shell script) and found that there was a way to specify "--debug".  So, when I ran...

mobius# freebsd-update --debug -s update1.freebsd.org fetch
Looking up update1.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching public key from update1.freebsd.org... fetch: http://update1.freebsd.org/7.1-PRERELEASE/i386/pub.ssl: Not Found
failed.

That gave me a good lead to follow.  Browsing around update1.freebsd.org for a bit leads me to find things under, say,
http://update.freebsd.org/7.1-RELEASE/i386/pub.ssl
Just not under 7.1-PRERELEASE. 

I'll update the old fashioned way.  NP.  I think once I'm off PRERELEASE I'll be able to use freebsd-update.