From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 9 10:32:32 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EE0637B401 for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:32:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13AC143F3F for ; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 10:32:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 18960 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2003 18:32:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail15.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 9 Jan 2003 18:32:34 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h09IWRUT087121; Thu, 9 Jan 2003 13:32:28 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3E1CD671.29FCBE72@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:32:37 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Terry Lambert Subject: Re: Kernel panic on 4.7-STABLE to 5.0 RC2 upgrade. Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "Julian H. Stacey" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 09-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: >> Terry Lambert wrote: >> > Because RC2 was not tagged, because We Fear CVS Tags(tm), you >> > will need to use a date in order to create your own RC2. >> >> Perhaps release build team are trying to avoid touching every file >> in the CVS tree, as global touching costs people receiving on modems >> & non flat rate extra telecom charges, (regardless of whether receiving >> via CVSup or CTM etc). > > I'm well aware of that (see other post). > > >> RC2 seems important though; so Although there's no tag in src/Makefile,v >> is there a CVS file containing a table of dates corresponding to >> EG RC2, RC1 etc ? (& if one doesnt exist, how about creating one ?). > > RC2 has additional changes, above and beyond a simple date tag > (see other post; I believe it was managed in P4, and you could > use _that_ to recover it). A tag, in this case, would only be > useful if the other RC2 changes (string changes, hacks to suppress > known bugs, etc., mostly) were made in a branch off the tag, in > the main source tree, rather than in P4. Not a convenient option, > all around, I'm afraid, though I agree that release candidates > should be tagged in the tree, so they can be recovered, for archival > reasons, if nothing else. 8-(. This is incorrect. Only DP1 and DP2 have diff's relative to current. The RC's are cut directly from -current. > The main point, though, is about getting the same sources for the > RC2 that won't install, in order to build an RC2 that's identical, > so it won't install, and then build an RC2 with a kernel with > symbols and DDB and BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER, so we can find out *why* it > won't install. These bits are quite easily obtained from the tarballs in the RC2 release that are available both via FTP and on the CD. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message