From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 5 13:56:55 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 58DB2106566C for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:56:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crtmike@gmx.us) Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com (mailout-eu.gmx.com [213.165.64.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B757F8FC08 for ; Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:56:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 05 Oct 2012 13:56:52 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO bsd.laptop.mike) [124.89.80.42] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu005) with SMTP; 05 Oct 2012 15:56:52 +0200 X-Authenticated: #137061016 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/As9Q3UwTA04nDip8QJphUe07UdDMzIa1EQ7Ffqs qhGIBCH9lc4LhK Message-ID: <506EE717.7000409@gmx.us> Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:56:39 +0800 From: Mike Manilone User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120915 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20121005135110.GA1339@glenbarber.us> In-Reply-To: <20121005135110.GA1339@glenbarber.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: Re: FreeBSD 10-CURRENT and 9-STABLE snapshots 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: Fri, 05 Oct 2012 13:56:55 -0000 On 2012/10/05 21:51, Glen Barber wrote: > Hi, > > A number of FreeBSD users have displayed interest in the availability > and testing of -STABLE and -CURRENT snapshot releases. > > I have been working on generating snapshots regularly, and now would > like to announce their availability for those interested in testing. > > Please note, as always with the -STABLE and -CURRENT branches, these > snapshots are not intended for production systems. > > The snapshots available are: > > - 10.0-CURRENT amd64 > - 10.0-CURRENT i386 > - 9.1-PRERELEASE amd64 > - 9.1-PRERELEASE i386 > > Note that the 9.1-PRERELEASE snapshots are the stable/9 branch, not what > will eventually be 9.1-RELEASE. > > I do not yet have snapshots for the 8-STABLE branch, but am working on > the magic to make that happen as well. There are also no bootonly ISOs, > since the necessary distribution sets are not available on the FreeBSD > FTP servers, so I cannot direct the installer to a different location > very easily. > > The URL for the snapshots is: > > https://snapshots.glenbarber.us/Latest/ > > The SHA256 of the xz(1)-compressed install medium follows, and is also > included in a plain-text file on the site. > > FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-amd64-memstick.xz = 8779f5925cb903c64d647392f6af825d5e74019d6d13222045d69091b03a81ff > FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-amd64-release.iso.xz = cc3934c947563c23f92ba1cd8ca7ded3999dfbc050e2b2647c294e442f267040 > FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-i386-memstick.xz = 9eb7ff8e28c0c524d2794828acb601b9b7079c1d00017e3bf84b974ff4412e42 > FreeBSD-10.0-CURRENT-i386-release.iso.xz = 0d1334fea13e16cb0d06a3f3c3fb7b0e1223baf06a06a889a6cffa6981348ae5 > FreeBSD-9.1-PRERELEASE-amd64-memstick.xz = f5f1e7acbaaac6eb61c5194199eb6ef090af242efc9808dc1af5caeee126e15e > FreeBSD-9.1-PRERELEASE-amd64-release.iso.xz = 0cfa5b258428741e0345b29eed241188d5944fcb15a70b079d39d56195f0cccc > FreeBSD-9.1-PRERELEASE-i386-memstick.xz = 4e98ffe63b186b0e26f22c3ddfb0582019bf352d1ea39da2757817c809872b67 > FreeBSD-9.1-PRERELEASE-i386-release.iso.xz = 0bce6f2a9626705484ff7cac18623f714e289ef6ddc0b6199d78eba37ded2ca4 > > The "Latest" directory on the site will always point to the latest batch > of snapshots, which right now my goal is to regenerate every few days > (I do not have a definitive timeframe in mind yet). > > I hope these are useful to the FreeBSD community. Feedback on this is > welcome, as always. > > Cheers, > > Glen > > PS: Please report any issues regarding downloading to me directly. > Good idea! :-) Could it be used in freebsd-update? Cheers, Mike