Should freebsd-update case-fold release identifiers?
Darren Pilgrim
list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Sun Nov 30 07:46:36 UTC 2014
I upgraded a machine from 10.0 to 10.1 tonight. Ran in this odd little
quirk:
# freebsd-update -r 10.1-release upgrade
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 10.0-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org...
done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic world/base
The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
world/doc world/games
Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y
Fetching metadata signature for 10.1-release from update2.freebsd.org...
failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 10.1-release from update5.freebsd.org...
failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 10.1-release from update4.freebsd.org...
failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 10.1-release from update6.freebsd.org...
failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 10.1-release from update3.freebsd.org...
failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.
#
It seems to me that the case of the word "release" shouldn't matter.
The tool should either do a case-insensitive match, or case-fold to
upper, since that's what all release identifiers use anyway.
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