freebsd-update newbie

[andrew clarke]

On Tue 2010-08-31 09:56:19 UTC-0400, Kyle Dippery (kyle at engr.uky.edu) wrote:

> hostname# freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> Fetching metadata signature for 8.1-STABLE from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.

Short answer: freebsd-update doesn't support updating systems running -STABLE.