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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:33:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml@t-b-o-h.net>
To:        davidb@boothscientific.com
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.0-BETA1.5 Available...
Message-ID:  <200710260433.l9Q4XBdx049302@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
In-Reply-To: <200710252319.27118.davidb@boothscientific.com>

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> On Thursday 25 October 2007, Ken Smith wrote:
> > Sorry, I had a bit of a false start with 7.0-BETA1.  I've got sets
> > of build machines used for the Monthly Snapshots and procedures in
> > place to try and minimize the mistakes I could make while doing
> > those Snapshots (previously one set for HEAD, one set for
> > RELENG_6).  The set of machines I'll be using for the 7.0-RELEASE
> > build are the ones that had previously been doing the HEAD
> > snapshots and I missed doing one very important adjustment to the
> > build routine while doing the BETA1 builds, which resulted in the
> > builds being based on HEAD.  I didn't notice during the tests I do
> > before uploading it because the build procedure makes most things
> > (e.g. uname) say what you told it to build, you need to look harder
> > to discover that sort of mistake.  So, 7.0-BETA1 actually should
> > have been called something more like 8.0-SURPRISE...  :-(
> >
> > Sorry for the screw-up.
> >
> 
> This change seems to break portupgrade.  It complains that it cannot 
> parse the output of uname.  I think it is not capable of handling the 
> 1.5 after the BETA.
> 
	I hadn't tried that... When you do build a new kernel, it
goes back to BETA1 though. 

		Tuc



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