From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 29 11:59:47 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 7998167E for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:59:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpaasial@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-x22a.google.com (mail-wg0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22a]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DFF8FC12 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:59:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id dr1so4557534wgb.5 for ; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:59:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=5cDa8cjVsja4xFoN/9RcSMRzRyrwVOilivIWiYkYnx8=; b=ULs+J3+qQ+eC/6s3qEqhlqgLR1BtA8+HA64iXvNlRl2mHGblcCrEfQXHKEAwy0q1Tb /uBRVZO7AxWFbkF5+nHbfZ8h/0g3tK8fOtz5A4JYcYe93mP0H8q4Mg8G7djKYDL0gsPK 8ESEIPDd/jZ7J4jnCwRnz33QjySgrxQZCO4dW3RXOl3NhEHIPs0XHB2DujHSFf7uxYsf uOtfVlt5o2LmTOt6PestiX7KrjMPt0mmOoOGZ99Ahqw7Ss/ONjvvz79f083SixTKIIM1 iEwhdYpTmnpFT1nTfgSdQZg/HHAMRA86BlrfhoIHNbPp5/cZQfwZm/a72wAczLUGK5gO CEfw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.81.39 with SMTP id w7mr56579449wix.15.1356782386206; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:59:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.172.197 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Dec 2012 03:59:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87.5C.07640.028DED05@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> References: <87.5C.07640.028DED05@smtp02.insight.synacor.com> Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 13:59:45 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 9.1 minimal ram requirements From: Kimmo Paasiala To: Thomas Mueller Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Mark Linimon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2012 11:59:47 -0000 On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > from Mark Linimon : > >> In an ideal world, the bits that will almost certainly become FreeBSD 9.1 >> would not appear on the masters, or any of the mirrors, until the same >> instant that the release announcement is set to freebsd-announce@FreeBSD.org. > >> In practice this doesn't happen. If there is some clever way for that to >> happen, we haven't found it yet. > >> It has happened in the past that even as the release bits were propogating, >> One Last Big Bug was found and those bits had to be pulled and re-done. It >> would have looked like you had FreeBSD Release X.Y but you wouldn't have had >> the final bits that everyone else did. > >> I understand your frustration that this process takes days, and in general >> the frustration with this particular release -- more than you could possibly >> believe. However, until we figure out the process that would exist in an >> ideal world, this is what we have, and so if you need something that will be >> in 9.1, your options at this moment are: build an install from 9-STABLE; find >> one of the snapshots (and no, I am not the one to ask, sorry); or wait. > >> Sorry, but that's the best I can offer right now. > >> mcl > > So that's why I downloaded-updated source tree using svn, built and installed, > and uname -a revealed 9.1-PRERELEASE. It seemed strange after 9.1-RELEASE > became available on FTP servers December 5. Maybe they can do something to > better document "device ctl" in GENERIC; I kept it because it was there, and > one is led to think it is needed due to changes in FreeBSD. > > > Tom Most likely you took the stable/9 aka 9-STABLE sources. They have internal name "9.1-PRERELEASE" until the 9.1-RELEASE goes out of the door.