Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 16:23:25 -0800 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 4.8-RELEASE status Message-ID: <20030403002325.GA28117@intruder.bmah.org>
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--jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Hi-- A number of you have been (rightfully) wondering what's up with the i386 4.8-RELEASE. Here's the current state: The files that are as of this moment tagged as RELENG_4_8_0_RELEASE can't be used to build a release because the MFSROOT kernel (that goes on the kern.flp) overflows a the size of a 1440K floppy disk. This bug was masked by another problem that happened to be present on the machines used by the RE team to build releases...namely, that they didn't have the cvsroot-all collection in their local repositories. To make a long story short, the $FreeBSD$ tags didn't get expanded in the source files, thus (I am not making this up) causing the MFSROOT kernel to be just a *little* bit smaller so that it could fit on a floppy. I think this was the world's April Fool's joke to the RE team. We're currently trying to fix this by finding some other driver we can move to a module on the mfsroot.flp image (or maybe just eliminate). After we finish some tests, we'll need to commit whatever change is required, re-tag the affected files, and then rebuild the base system. I'm not in a position to comment on a timeline for these happenings. Thanks for your continued patience! Bruce. PS. This may sound rude, for which I apologize in advance: The less time that the RE team has to spend replying to various emails (particularly those that are not relevant to the immediate goal of shipping 4.8-RELEASE), the faster the release is probably going to be finished. --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+i3792MoxcVugUsMRAsWKAKD7ZZ2byt7SRC5yCD10AXf0OyBXsQCdHWe4 vJqPvL44qDJQOhKU82Wu5sg= =xgSt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--
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