Trying to upgrade FreeBSD from 7.0 Beta4 to 7.0-RC1

monitor# uname -a

FreeBSD monitor.alamster.net 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Mon Dec 17 13:36:                                                                              40 UTC 2007     [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

monitor# locate freebsd-update.conf

/etc/freebsd-update.conf
/usr/jail/etc/freebsd-update.conf
/usr/jail/usr/share/examples/etc/freebsd-update.conf
/usr/obj/usr/src/share/man/man5/freebsd-update.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/examples/etc/freebsd-update.conf
/usr/share/man/man5/freebsd-update.conf.5.gz
/usr/src/etc/freebsd-update.conf
/usr/src/share/man/man5/freebsd-update.conf.5
/usr/titan/ports/security/freebsd-update/files/Attic/freebsd-update.conf.5,v
/usr/titan/src/etc/freebsd-update.conf,v
/usr/titan/src/share/man/man5/freebsd-update.conf.5,v

monitor# freebsd-update -f /etc/freebsd-update.conf -r 7.0RC1 upgrade

Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 1 mirrors found.
Fetching public key from update1.FreeBSD.org… done.
Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-BETA4 from update1.FreeBSD.org… done.
Fetching metadata index… done.
Fetching 2 metadata files… done.
Inspecting system… done.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic src/base src/bin src/cddl src/compat src/contrib
src/crypto src/etc src/games src/gnu src/include src/krb5 src/lib
src/libexec src/release src/rescue src/sbin src/secure src/share src/sys
src/tools src/ubin src/usbin world/base world/dict world/doc world/games
world/info world/manpages world/proflibs

The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed:
world/catpages

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 7.0RC1 from update1.FreeBSD.org… failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

editing /etc/freebsd-update.conf

ServerName update.FreeBSD.org to ServerName update1.FreeBSD.org

failed???

Do I type something wrong : another try after I realized it’s 7.0-RC1 (plus minus)

Fetching metadata signature for 7.0-RC1 from update1.FreeBSD.org… done.
Fetching metadata index… done.
Fetching 1 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata patches… done.
Fetching 1 metadata files… done.
Inspecting system… done.
Fetching files from 7.0-BETA4 for merging… done.
Preparing to download files… done.
Fetching 59 patches…..10….20….30….40….50…. done.
Applying patches… done.
Fetching 1064 files… done.
/usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/freebsd-update: cannot open files/.gz: No such file or directory
Attempting to automatically merge changes in files… done.

The following file could not be merged automatically: /etc/mail/freebsd.cf
Press Enter to edit this file in vi and resolve the conflicts
manually…

hmmm…. editing freebsd.cf manually. I’ll do later 🙂