Problem upgrading

Timothy Snowberger tsnow at tabletoptelephone.com
Wed Oct 17 21:31:44 UTC 2012


On 10/17/2012 7:27 AM, Jim Trigg wrote:
> Any suggestions on how to fix this?
>
> ---
> argent(1) /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster# freebsd-update -r 9.0-RELEASE upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
> Inspecting system... done.
>
> The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
> kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/cddl src/contrib src/crypto src/etc
> src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib src/libexec src/release
> src/rescue src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys src/tools src/ubin
> src/usbin world/base world/dict world/doc world/games world/info
> world/manpages world/proflibs
>
> The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
> world/catpages
>
> Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y
>
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.0-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
> Applying metadata patches... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata files... done.
>
> The update metadata is correctly signed, but
> failed an integrity check.
> Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.
> ---
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
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sed -i '' -e 's/=_/=%@_/' /usr/sbin/freebsd-update

See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-October/064321.html

"First, a minor change must be made to the freebsd-update code in order
for it to accept file names appearing in FreeBSD 9.0 which contain the '%'
and '@' characters; without this change, freebsd-update will error out
with the message "The update metadata is correctly signed, but failed an
integrity check". "



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