FreeBSD-update seems to hang on 10.0-BETA2

I’m setting up a new FreeBSD web server. As 10.0 is just around the corner, I installed 10.0-BETA2. BETA4 is out, so it’s time to upgrade.

# freebsd-update -r 10.0-BETA4 upgrade

Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 5 mirrors found.

...

That all looks good. Then I installed the update

# freebsd-update install

...

And the install hung. Overnight. Why?

Turns out that there are multiple errata on freebsd-update. While you can upgrade to BETA2-p2, you can’t jump directly to the next version.

So you nee...