From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 21:58:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AA41065674; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:58:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emaste@freebsd.org) Received: from gw.sandvine.com (gw.sandvine.com [199.243.201.138]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 182ED8FC1A; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:58:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emaste@freebsd.org) Received: from labgw2.phaedrus.sandvine.com ([192.168.3.11]) by gw.sandvine.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:46:00 -0400 Received: by labgw2.phaedrus.sandvine.com (Postfix, from userid 12627) id 65E9A11706; Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:46:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:46:00 -0400 From: Ed Maste To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" Message-ID: <20080623214600.GA51757@sandvine.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ed Maste , "Bjoern A. Zeeb" , John Birrell , FreeBSD current mailing list References: <20080618085948.X83875@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <20080618224531.GA20863@what-creek.com> <20080618225126.V83875@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <20080618230633.GB20863@what-creek.com> <20080619151421.Q83875@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080619151421.Q83875@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jun 2008 21:46:00.0616 (UTC) FILETIME=[86E85A80:01C8D57A] Cc: John Birrell , FreeBSD current mailing list Subject: Re: problem: world boot strapping from 7-C to HEAD with CDDL on sparc64? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:58:05 -0000 On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 03:14:45PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, John Birrell wrote: > > >On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 10:53:02PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > >>On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, John Birrell wrote: > >> > >>>On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 09:06:41AM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote: > >>>>Hi, > >>>> > >>>>I am having a bootstrapping problem on sparc64 with CDDL but cannot > >>>>find anything in UPDATING for that. > >>>> > >>>>See: > >>>>http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/tmp/sparc64-compile-world.txt > >>>> > >>>>Should that be documented? > >>> > >>>Is this an up-to-date RELENG_7 system? If so, I think it should have the > >> > >>check the text file references. It has an uname -a in the first line. > >> > >>It is a 7-CURRENT from 2006. UPDATING says we support updating from 6 > >>or newer so something is wrong. Either bootstrapping or UPDATING. I > >>guess it's the former... > > > >I thought our policy was that you had to update to the latest on a RELENG_X > >branch before updating to the next branch or to current. > > UPDATING says: > > 20080123: > To upgrade to -current after this date, you must be running > FreeBSD not older than 6.0-RELEASE. Upgrading to -current > from 5.x now requires a stop over at RELENG_6 or RELENG_7 systems. I agree and think we should document the minimum release required for building CURRENT. At the very least we shouldn't continue to suggest that 6.0-RELEASE is sufficient, if we're not going to address the bootstrapping issue. (I noticed that UPDATING also still has a section "To upgrade in-place from 5.x-stable to current," and many obsolete entries, and so could do with a good cleanup.) All that said, I'd really like to be able to continue building head on RELENG_6. (In my case I have a rather fast RELENG_6 box so I have been doing my pre-commit testing there.) Do the changes we're discussing here involve anything that makes that difficult? Regards, Ed