freebsd-update not working from 7.1-PRERELEASE

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 08:41:52PM +0200, Markus Oestreicher wrote:
> I installed 7.1-BETA-i386 from CD and used freebsd-update to get the latest
> prerelease updates.
> 
> This got me to the following version:
> 
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD hostname 7.1-PRERELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Oct  5 12:15:12 UTC 2008     root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> 
> Now I wanted to go to BETA2, but freebsd-update does not work any more:
> 
> # freebsd-update fetch
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> 
> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-BET2
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-PRERELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.
> 
> I thought it was possible to upgrade this way up to 7.1-RELEASE?
> 
> Any idea?

I believe someone else recently reported something similar, and they
changed their update server to something else, and it worked.

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