I can't upgrade 14.1-RELEASE-p5 to 14.1-RELEASE-p6 using freebsd-update.

ZioMario

ZioMario

Hello.

I'm trying to upgrade 14.1-RELEASE-p5 to 14.1-RELEASE-p6 using freebsd-update as always and it worked every single time (for minor releases),but not now. Why ? what should I do to upgrade it ?

Code: 
[mario@marietto /home/marietto]==> freebsd-update fetch

Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 14.1-RELEASE from update2.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 14.1-RELEASE-p6.

WARNING: FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p5 is approaching its End-of-Life date.
It is strongly recommended that you upgrade to a newer
release within the next 2 months.

[mario@marietto /home/marietto]==> freebsd-update -r 14.1-RELEASE-p6 upgrade

Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 14.1-RELEASE 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.

The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed:
kernel/generic kernel/generic-dbg src/src world/base world/base-dbg
world/lib32 world/lib32-dbg

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

Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y

Fetching metadata signature for 14.1-RELEASE-p6 from update1.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 14.1-RELEASE-p6 from update2.freebsd.org... failed.
Fetching metadata signature for 14.1-RELEASE-p6 from dualstack.aws.update.freebsd.org... failed.
No mirrors remaining, giving up.

This may be because upgrading from this platform (amd64)
or release (14.1-RELEASE-p6) is unsupported by freebsd-update. Only
platforms with Tier 1 support can be upgraded by freebsd-update.
See https://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ for more info.

If unsupported, FreeBSD must be upgraded by source.

[mario@marietto /home/marietto]==> freebsd-version -k
14.1-RELEASE-p5
 
Code: 
==> drill update.freebsd.org

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, rcode: NOERROR, id: 58210
;; flags: qr rd ra ; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;; update.freebsd.org.    IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
update.freebsd.org.    3600    IN    A    163.237.247.16
update.freebsd.org.    3600    IN    A    204.15.11.69

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:

;; Query time: 30 msec
;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8
;; WHEN: Tue Dec 31 11:34:12 2024
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 68
 
Code: 
[mario@marietto /bhyve]==> freebsd-update fetch -s update.freebsd.org

Looking up update.freebsd.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature for 14.1-RELEASE from update1.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching metadata index... done.
Inspecting system... done.
Preparing to download files... done.

No updates needed to update system to 14.1-RELEASE-p6.

but p6 is out or not ? I don't understand why it is not able to upgrade it. What's the reason ? some problem in my system ? or the p6 is not out yet ? at least for someone ?
 
Are you sure that you didn't already update to latest 14.1 patch? Can you show output of this command below.
freebsd-version -kru
 
I updated from sources recently. Yes, there is patch #6. I don't know about binaries.
 

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p6 is the last one ? So,in 2 months I can't use the branch 14.1-RELEASE anymore and I'm forced to jump to 14.2 ? This is what I dont like about FreeBSD : there is a too fast a pace of releases, which expire too quickly.
 
ZioMario said:
p6 is the last one ? So,in 2 months I can't use the branch 14.1-RELEASE anymore and I'm forced to jump to 14.2 ? This is what I dont like about FreeBSD : there is a too fast a pace of releases, which expire too quickly.
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Yes, p6 is the latest patch for 14.1-R.

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14.1 will be expected to reach to it's EoL in March 31, 2025.
 
ZioMario said:
This is what I dont like about FreeBSD : there is a too fast a pace of releases, which expire too quickly.
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That's mostly terminology, however. Upgrades across minor versions are not very likely to cause problems – at least in my experience. I'm not sure a release model would be inherently better, where you'd nominally stay on the same version for longer, but had to expect more radical changes at any times.
 
ZioMario said:
So,in 2 months I can't use the branch 14.1-RELEASE anymore and I'm forced to jump to 14.2 ?
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There is nothing new mate why do you look so surprised?
ZioMario said:
This is what I dont like about FreeBSD : there is a too fast a pace of releases, which expire too quickly.
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That's how they do in order to increase security for their product I suppose, that way they don't have to keep support for bugs in older releases.
They already have support for two different releases at the same time (currently it's 13.x and 14.x) which I imagine is not an easy task, so they don't need to maintain all minor releases longer than necessary, that would be too much work I guess.
Small team has to play smart, and I think they are doing well considering how long they've been doing that.

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