freebsd-update borked?

[Yass Amed]

On 08/04/2016 07:00 AM, freebsd-stable-request at freebsd.org wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2016 17:51:13 +0200
> From: Michelle Sullivan<michelle at sorbs.net>
> To: St?phane Dupille via freebsd-stable<freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
> Subject: freebsd-update borked?
> Message-ID:<57A212F1.6060309 at sorbs.net>
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>
> As per the subject...
>
>
> [root at cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
> Applying metadata patches... done.
> Fetching 1 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
> metadata is corrupt.
> [root at cheetah ~]# mv /var/db/freebsd-update /var/db/freebsd-update.9.2
> [root at cheetah ~]# mkdir  /var/db/freebsd-update
> [root at cheetah ~]# freebsd-update -r 9.3-RELEASE upgrade
> Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... none found.
> Fetching public key from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update.FreeBSD.org... done.
> Fetching metadata index... done.
> Fetching 2 metadata files... gunzip: (stdin): unexpected end of file
> metadata is corrupt.
> [root at cheetah ~]# uname -a
> FreeBSD cheetah.sorbs.net 9.2-RELEASE-p15 FreeBSD 9.2-RELEASE-p15 #0:
> Mon Nov  3 20:31:29 UTC 2014
> root at amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

See this thread https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/28992/ you might have 
a DNS issue according to this line "Looking up update.FreeBSD.org 
mirrors... none found ".
OR, "sudo rm -f /var/db/freebsd-update/*.gz" and re-download the file 
again.

FYI: 9.3 will reach end-of-life in less than 4mos (try one of the 10.Xs).


Yass

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