From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 17 09:07:14 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B277106568D for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:07:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ari@ish.com.au) Received: from fish.ish.com.au (eth5921.nsw.adsl.internode.on.net [59.167.240.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0DF38FC41 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:07:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ip-149.ish.com.au ([203.29.62.149]:54597) by fish.ish.com.au with esmtpa (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MczKI-0003tH-2F; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:20:30 +1000 Message-ID: <4A891DBE.2070403@ish.com.au> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:07:10 +1000 From: Aristedes Maniatis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090807 Shredder/3.0b4pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Allen References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: Going to BSD 8 from RELENG_7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:07:14 -0000 On 14/08/09 11:12 AM, Dan Allen wrote: > I cvsup and build RELENG_7 many times a week. This has served me well > (except for the ZFS boot problem I had that went in and was backed > out) for quite a while. > > I like to track a STABLE release. When BSD 7 went to 7.1 and to 7.2, > it all just happened automatically with the way I do things. > > Now I am interested on one of my BSD machines to try 8.0. I need to > change my cvsup target from RELENG_7 to CURRENT I believe. Is that > true? When will STABLE become 8.0? Since I see you are updating from 7 to 8 and are running ZFS, you may be bitten by the fact that ZFS will not work after you install the new kernel. See the last comment here: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-07-11-freebsd-update-to-8.0-beta1.html Ari --------------------------> ish http://www.ish.com.au Level 1, 30 Wilson Street Newtown 2042 Australia phone +61 2 9550 5001 fax +61 2 9550 4001 GPG fingerprint CBFB 84B4 738D 4E87 5E5C 5EFA EF6A 7D2E 3E49 102A