FreeBSD 8.2-RC3/7.4-RC3 Available...

[Jan Henrik Sylvester]

On 02/06/2011 10:30, Thomas Steen Rasmussen wrote:
> On 03.02.2011 23:38, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote:
>> On 01/-10/-28163 20:59, Ken Smith wrote:
>>> The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
>>> systems running earlier FreeBSD releases.  Systems running 8.0-RELEASE,
>>> 8.1-RELEASE, 8.2-BETA1, 8.2-RC1 or 8.2-RC2 can upgrade as follows:
>>>
>>> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RC3
>>
>> While it does work on i386, it fails on amd64:
>>
>> Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RC3 from update5.FreeBSD.org...
>> failed.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RC3 from update4.FreeBSD.org...
>> failed.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RC3 from update2.FreeBSD.org...
>> failed.
>> Fetching metadata signature for 8.2-RC3 from update3.FreeBSD.org...
>> failed.
>>
>> In contrast to the other releases, betas, and candidates, there is no
>> amd64 directory listed for 8.2-RC3, only i386:
>>
>> http://update4.freebsd.org/8.2-RC3/
>>
>> (It has been this way for a few days now, but since there was no
>> announcement, I thought it was still being worked on.)
>>
> Hello,
>
> For what it's worth, I am still seeing the same thing on an AMD64
> 8.2-RC2 system:
>
> $ sudo freebsd-update -v debug upgrade -r 8.2-RC3
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found.
> Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update4.FreeBSD.org/8.2-PRERELEASE/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update5.FreeBSD.org/8.2-PRERELEASE/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> Fetching public key from update2.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update2.FreeBSD.org/8.2-PRERELEASE/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> Fetching public key from update3.FreeBSD.org... fetch:
> http://update3.FreeBSD.org/8.2-PRERELEASE/amd64/pub.ssl: Not Found
> failed.
> No mirrors remaining, giving up.

That is not the same thing. It is looking for "8.2-PRERELEASE": Your 
system is not on a binary release (a RELEASE, a BETA, or a RC) and 
cannot (regularly) be updated by freebsd-update.

I have done freebsd-updates 8.1-RELEASE -> 8.2-BETA1 -> 8.2-RC1 -> 
8.2-RC2 on amd64 successfully (as well as 8.2-RC1 -> 8.2-RC2 on i386). 
The bits are all there.

For 8.2-RC3 and 7.4-RC3 the amd64 signatures are missing while the i386 
ones are there: http://update4.freebsd.org/8.2-RC3/ Both amd64 and i386 
are there for 8.2-RC2 (and every other RELEASE, BETA, and RC): 
http://update4.freebsd.org/8.2-RC2/

Interestingly, while the signature is missing, the binary patches are 
there for amd64 (and i386): http://update4.freebsd.org/to-8.2-RC3/

Cheers,
Jan Henrik