Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 14:18:58 -0700 From: Blake Swensen <blake@pyramus.com> To: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 4.5-RELEASE oddities (read:flamebait) Message-ID: <3CCF0A42.F52C96E2@pyramus.com>
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Ok, what is the deal with 4.5 release? I have been using FreeBSD since 1.0 and have installed every release branch for a total of hundreds of times. The other day I downloaded the ISO for 4.5 and installed it on an HP Vectra. I got it going in a matter of hours. After using it for a day or two I attempted to use the whereis command and got an Perl syntax error in /usr/bin/whereis. I fixed that and then noticed that makewhatis was crashing with a similar perl error during cron. So I thought...hmmm, maybe my ISO was corrupted or the snapshot it was made from wasn't quite right. So I CVSUPed the sources and started to perform a 'make buildworld'... thinking that the net might have a more correct distribution. This failed all over the place... mainly because somewhere in the source tree the ../lib/libncurses build had an f-ing typo (../includeosys/.. should have been ../include/sys/..). Mind you, this was from a fresh download of the source tree! After correcting that problem, the make crashed again in another spot... then a third time. Finally, I went back to the servers and installed 4.3-RELEASE ... and it works perfectly. I have never moaned about FreeBSD before... I have never been happier with an operating system. However... I am just wondering if it is just me, or have things gotten just a little sloppy? Peace, Blake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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