Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 21:58:23 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 Available Message-ID: <20090417195823.GA81376@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <1239988503.94812.26.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1239988503.94812.26.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu>
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On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:15:03PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > The first of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE > cycle is now available. Testing of some of the recent work would be > particularly appreciated. This includes: > > - bce(4) updated (there is a report that lagg(4) does > not work after the update, fixing that may need to be > done as an Errata Notice after the release) > - testing of the threading libraries > - amr(4) should be fixed > > A fix for the "vm_page_insert: page already inserted" panics has been > committed to RELENG_7_1 this morning so it missed the 7.2-RC1 builds. > If you wind up being hit by that you can try a normal source based > update to the current state of RELENG_7_1 and that problem should go > away. I assume that you mean 'RELENG_7_2' rather than 'RELENG_7_1' in the above paragraph? (As well as further down.) > > We have slipped by two days at this point but otherwise are on track > with the target release schedule which is here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/schedule.html > > We continue to watch for problems both on the mailing lists and in Gnats > but at this point we know of nothing we consider show-stopper calibre. > Unless something that bad does surface as a result of 7.2-RC1 testing we > should be sticking to the schedule. > > The ISO images and FTP install trees are available on the FreeBSD Mirror > sites. Using the primary site as an example: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/${arch}/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/ > > where ${arch} is one of amd64 i386, ia64, pc98, or sparc64. The > builds for powerpc are still in progress, it should become available > in a day or two. > > Checksums for the ISO images are at the bottom of this message. The > amd64 and i386 sets include a *preliminary* set of packages. > > If you would like to do a source-based update to 7.2-RC1 from an > already installed machine you can update your tree to RELENG_7_1 using > normal cvsup/csup methods. > > The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 > systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 7.0-RELEASE, > 7.1-RELEASE, or 7.2-BETA1 can upgrade as follows: > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2-RC1 > > During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging > some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed > merging was done correctly. > > # freebsd-update install > > The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing. > # shutdown -r now > > After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new > userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted again: > > # freebsd-update install > # shutdown -r now > > Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 6.x) can also use freebsd-update to > upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2-RC1, but will be prompted to rebuild all third-party > applications (e.g., anything installed from the ports tree) after the second > invocation of "freebsd-update install", in order to handle differences in the > system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x. > -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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