freebsd-update to 10.2-RELEASE broken ?

[Christian Kratzer]

Hi,

On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
<snipp/>
> We assumed that I have a DNS problem because of this line:
>
>> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
>
> This happens with this query inside the freebsd-update script, at
> line 950:
>
> host -t srv _http._tcp.update.FreeBSD.org
>
> If you prime your DNS cache with manual queries, then freebsd-update
> will sometimes find the hosts and will report that it found some hosts.
>
> But, I just tried to reproduce this and failed, the problem persists.
>
> So, yes, it looks like a real issue.

hmmm. Thanks for pointing me at the dns issue.

I actually did not see that message as it seems to only appear on
subsequent rounds of running freebsd-update.  I always deleted
/var/db/freebsd-update and thus always started clean.

I was able to complete the freebsd-update upgrade when I manually
specified on of the mirrors as in:

     freebsd-update -s update2.freebsd.org -r 10.2-RELEASE upgrade

So this does seem to be a dns related issue.  It could also be the
related to parsing the results of the dns lookup.

Anyway seems we have a workaround if we specify the mirrors manually.

Greetings
Christian

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