From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 6 02:58:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA23482 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 02:58:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.196.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA23477 for ; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 02:58:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (IDENT:ybV0OKe0pS8hGVdGkHBm6uycpE28LbvU@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by outmail.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA07736; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:58:00 +0900 (JST) Received: from zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp [160.12.42.1]) by zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/3.4W/zodiac-May96) with ESMTP id UAA13686; Sat, 6 Feb 1999 20:00:48 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <199902061100.UAA13686@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG cc: Neil Groeber , yokota@zodiac.mech.utsunomiya-u.ac.jp Subject: HEADS UP: please read /usr/src/UPDATING! (was: Re: Kernel build failure) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Feb 1999 10:40:21 GMT." References: Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 20:00:47 +0900 From: Kazutaka YOKOTA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >After a `make world' to update from 3.0-release to 3.0-stable I get the >following failure when I try to build a new kernel:- > >loading kernel >syscons.o: In function `scvidprobe': >syscons.o(.text+0x231): undefined reference to `vid_configure' [...] Please read /usr/src/UPDATING before you try using 3.0-STABLE! And you are advised to read the following statement from Jordan regarding 3.0-STABLE... Kazu yokota@FreeBSD.ORG ----------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 22:16:54 PST To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: When to transition to 3.0-STABLE.. NOT NOW! Delivered-To: vmailer-stable@freebsd.org X-UIDL: 917526831.000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Status: U If you're running 3.0-RELEASE or 2.2.x-SOMETHING and you're thinking of upgrading to 3.0-STABLE at this time, I thought I would just send a quick heads-up which says simply: "Don't!" Please wait until at least mid-February, when the release engineering and general tree repair work for 3.1-RELEASE has been mostly completed and all the sharpest edges have been filed off. This work has to happen anyway for 3.1 and it will make the transition process MUCH easier, so please... Wait! Don't jump in now just because we recently branched and you see a new -stable, wait until the early bleeders have finished finding the sharp edges in the upgrade process and we've had a chance to child-safe the whole thing a bit. Folks who've been tracking 3.0 all along and went to ELF everything months or weeks ago are fine and should keep right on tracking 3.0-stable, it's just that for the rather NEW situation where we have people switching binary formats as they jump -stable tracks, we're not quite prepared yet. This is a very different upgrade than previous ones and we need time to make the "upgrade" target actually work in a reasonable number of cases. What works great for 3.0-RELEASE might not at all for 2.2-stable and vice-versa, so it's not as easy as it looks. By mid-February, those running 2.2-S will be more encouraged to take the plunge since they'll have both a working source upgrade target AND a working SNAPshot or two to do binary upgrades with. We haven't even had the SNAPshots happening reliably since we branched and anyone who jumps in right now and doesn't also have the time to necessarily wrestle with a very green process simply does so at their own peril. You have been warned! - Jordan ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message