> Honest question, have you been building things from source under > debian's ports or are you using their version of "pkg"?
the latter and i have two 9 systems where i try to use freebsd-update. also a time-consuming rabbit hole leading nowhere pleasant. e.g. # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.2-RELEASE-p3 Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE from update5.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic world/base world/doc world/games world/lib32 The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update5.freebsd.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update2.freebsd.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update3.freebsd.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update4.freebsd.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9.2-RELEASE-p3 from update6.freebsd.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. randy _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
