Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:01:06 -0800 (PST) From: Georgi Hristov <tweaky_81@yahoo.com> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE status Message-ID: <20030404020106.76478.qmail@web9904.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030403002325.GA28117@intruder.bmah.org>
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According to the post below, the problem is with the image for the 1.44 floppy disk. However, the is no problem with the CD ISO images. Is that correct? Thus furure changes of the FreeBSD i386 CD ISO images would not be made, and dowloading the ISOs currently on the ftp server is OK. Is that correct? I am booting my system from CD and I really don't care about the 1.44 floppies. I would like to know when the CD images are going to be final and ready for release. Thanks --- "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi-- > > A number of you have been (rightfully) wondering > what's up with > the i386 4.8-RELEASE. Here's the current state: > > The files that are as of this moment tagged as > RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE > can't be used to build a release because the MFSROOT > kernel (that goes > on the kern.flp) overflows a the size of a 1440K > floppy disk. > > This bug was masked by another problem that happened > to be present on > the machines used by the RE team to build > releases...namely, that they > didn't have the cvsroot-all collection in their > local repositories. > To make a long story short, the $FreeBSD$ tags > didn't get expanded in > the source files, thus (I am not making this up) > causing the MFSROOT > kernel to be just a *little* bit smaller so that it > could fit on a > floppy. I think this was the world's April Fool's > joke to the RE > team. > > We're currently trying to fix this by finding some > other driver we can > move to a module on the mfsroot.flp image (or maybe > just eliminate). > After we finish some tests, we'll need to commit > whatever change is > required, re-tag the affected files, and then > rebuild the base system. > > I'm not in a position to comment on a timeline for > these happenings. > > Thanks for your continued patience! > > Bruce. > > PS. This may sound rude, for which I apologize in > advance: The less > time that the RE team has to spend replying to > various emails > (particularly those that are not relevant to the > immediate goal of > shipping 4.8-RELEASE), the faster the release is > probably going to be > finished. > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com
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