Upgrade to 9.1 failing

Mathieu Arnold mat at FreeBSD.org
Wed Jan 16 16:10:52 UTC 2013


+--On 14 janvier 2013 19:26:58 +0100 Mathieu Arnold <mat at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
| +--On 14 janvier 2013 19:05:31 +0100 Kurt Jaeger <lists at c0mplx.org> wrote:
|| Hi!
|| 
||> Today, I was trying to upgrade a 7.0-rel box to 9.1 with freebsd-update,
||> and I get :
|| [...]
||> The update metadata is correctly signed, but
||> failed an integrity check.
||> Cowardly refusing to proceed any further.
|| 
|| You can not upgrade from 7.0 to 9.1 directly.
|| 
|| Use two intermediate steps, 7.4 and 8.3 and try if this works. Add
|| more intermediate steps, if one fails.
| 
| Hum, sorry, but no, that's not the problem, I just tried and I can upgrade
| from 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1 and 7.2 to 9.1 with freebsd-update directly
| without problems. It gives an error on 7.0, which leads me to think that
| something's broken on that particular path.
| The file[1] that fails integrity check must have had something bad
| happening to it when it was created.
| 
| 1: debug tells me it's
| 9.1-RELEASE/i386/m/d80b83818c81a090997460d48fb1f53eb14d43072a1d1a4a5ba16d
| e4c5ae93b2.gz

So, cperciva tells me that it's because of
FreeBSD-EN-12:01.freebsd-update.asc[1], patching my freebsd-update solves
it.

1:
<http://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-12:01.freebsd-update.asc>
-- 
Mathieu Arnold


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