Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2009 08:40:13 +0100 From: "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.me.uk> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 8.0-BETA2 Available Message-ID: <20090718074013.GA42796@titania.njm.me.uk> In-Reply-To: <1247887759.14210.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1247887759.14210.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu>
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In message <1247887759.14210.18.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu>,
Ken Smith (kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) wrote:
>
> The second of the BETA builds for the FreeBSD-8.0 release cycle is now
> available. There are still a few things being finished up so a couple
> more moderately large commits are coming but we seem to be making good
> progress. The target date for the last of the things still being worked
> on is BETA3. In the meantime we appreciate the feedback we have
> received from people who have started testing and some of those problems
> have been fixed as well.
>
> As was the case with BETA1, BETA2 is still a little bit "rough around
> the edges" and we still have various debugging tools enabled that cause
> the system to perform worse than it will when those debugging tools get
> disabled. We don't know of any issues that will "eat your data" or
> anything like that so in that regard it's safe but we don't recommend it
> for production use quite yet. If you notice problems you can report
> them through the normal Gnats PR system or on the freebsd-current
> mailing list. Sorry for not specifying that in the BETA1 announcement.
> With the X.0 releases I make the announcements of how the release is
> progressing on both freebsd-current and freebsd-stable because what's
> being released is "about to become a stable branch" so some people who
> only read freebsd-stable might be interested. But when it comes to
> watching for discussions about the release the developer community tends
> to pay more attention to the freebsd-current mailing list.
>
> ISO images for all supported architectures are available on the FTP
> sites, and a "memory stick" image is available for amd64/i386
> architectures. For amd64/i386 architectures the DVD and memstick images
> include the documentation packages this time but no other packages yet.
> None of the other images included packages. The memstick image should
> now work in "fixit" mode (livefs).
>
> If you are using csup/cvsup methods to update an older system the branch
> tag to use is still head (".").
>
> 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, 7.2-RELEASE, or 8.0-BETA2 can upgrade as follows:
^^^^^^^^^
I think in this one instance you actually mean 8.0-BETA1.
Cheers,
Nick.
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