From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 9 16:37:20 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D3BA7FC for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 16:37:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D6B8FC13 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2012 16:37:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Thjsf-0007Zy-07 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:37:29 +0100 Received: from 79-139-19-75.prenet.pl ([79.139.19.75]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:37:28 +0100 Received: from jb.1234abcd by 79-139-19-75.prenet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:37:28 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: jb Subject: Re: Will we get a RELEASE-9.1 for Christmas? Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2012 16:37:01 +0000 (UTC) Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <201212090318.UAA11257@lariat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 79.139.19.75 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:10.0.11) Gecko/20121121 Firefox/10.0.11) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:37:20 -0000 Brett Glass lariat.net> writes: > > Just checking in, yet again, to ask about the status of FreeBSD > 9.1. We've been delaying construction of new servers (which we > wanted to build during the US Thanksgiving holiday) until the > release, and really want to be able to work on them over Christmas. > I understand that the release was held back by server security > issues and possibly by problems with CLANG's failure to emulate > obscure quirks of GCC; are these now resolved? Is there anything > else on the "TODO" list (the version on the Wiki is of no help; > it's woefully out of date) to be done prior to release? Does the > FreeBSD project need a fresh server to be donated to handle the release? > > --Brett Glass A few days ago I installed 9.0 and tested twice: - updating security/errata - updating ports tree with portsnap - setting up the system for Linux, Java, browsers (as in Handbook) - and then from ports to make work the usual suspects: cdrecord, smartmontools It all seems to be OK until, after many subsequent ports tree updates, I decided to update xterm, vlc, xfce, pan from ports. If I managed to update some of them, then it seemed the dependencies hell or something else started to take effect and I could not finish building them because they were dying with errors. I have done such an exercise in the past many times and I never failed to bring my system to a stable state. Only after this security compromise, time wise, things were so unstable. I understand that releng people will build all packages once more right before 9.1 release, but perhaps caution is warranted - would 9.1-RC4 make sense ? jb