5.0-RC1 Now Available

2002-12-08 Thread Murray Stokely
Thanks to everyone who has helped focus on getting 5.0-CURRENT (now 5.0-RC) into shape the upcoming release. We're one milestone closer today with the immediate availability of the first release candidate for the i386, alpha, sparc64, and ia64 platforms. ISO images and FTP installation

Re: fdimage tool on rc2 cd missing

2002-12-30 Thread Murray Stokely
On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 11:38:00PM +0100, Jens Rehsack wrote: correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't be the fdimage tool for creating disk images under DOS on the first cd of 5.0-RC2 (and later RELEASE)? Yes, fdimage is one of many tools that should be included in the 'tools' directory on

HEADS UP: DHCP 3.0.1RC6 imported

2002-02-19 Thread Murray Stokely
DHCP 3.0.1 RC6 has been imported into -CURRENT. DHCP 3.x provides DHCP failover support, dynamic DNS updates, and much more. http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP/dhcp-prerelease.html I've done testing with some Alpha and i386 machines on my local network, but it's certainly possible that the new

5.0 DP2 (was Re: KSE M-III status junior hacker project.)

2002-07-07 Thread Murray Stokely
On Sat, Jul 06, 2002 at 04:57:08PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote: Well with various hints from here and there I have fixed the ^Z/fg problem (at least it seems fixed to me and others that have tested) This basically leaves only one outstanding problem that I know of which is a problem that

Re: Comments on Release Building for -current

2002-07-31 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 08:33:38AM -0400, W Gerald Hicks wrote: Yup, it's been reported several times by various people and it seems everyone who can help is too busy to care. This isn't fun anymore. :-( Uhm, did I miss something? Where does this attitude come from? Did you submit

Re: 5.0 release schedule?

2002-09-02 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 09:08:32AM -0400, Rod Smith wrote: According to the timetable at http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.0R/schedule.html, DP2 for FreeBSD 5.0 I've updated that timetable to remove the specific date (it may take up to 24 hours for the website to be updated). We're actively

Re: 5.0 release schedule?

2002-09-02 Thread Murray Stokely
On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 01:41:41PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: A 5.0 DP2 branch was created just yesterday. So how ever good yesterday's -current was will affect DP2. I rather expected the release engineers to at least querry the lists to ask what the known issues are before picking which

Re: FreeBSD/i386 make release breakage

2002-02-26 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 12:19:01AM +0900, Makoto Matsushita wrote: murray I'm currently looking into #2 and #3, as well as working with Ted murray Lemon from the ISC to fix some symbol pollution that this whole mess murray has exposed. Any other ideas? Currently nothing, it seems that #3

Re: 5-CURRENT, make buildworld break?

2002-03-08 Thread Murray Stokely
On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:25:01PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 01:17:28PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Last I checked, 'make release' checks the sources out from CVS, and is therefore useless to test changes that

HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( 1 week Feature Slush )

2002-03-08 Thread Murray Stokely
As discussed at BSDCon, the release engineers are committed to releasing a relatively stable snapshot of FreeBSD -CURRENT on or around April 1, 2002. Obviously, a lot of major components are still in progress, but a great deal of work has already been accomplished, and could benefit from the

Re: Preparing innocent users for -current

2002-03-08 Thread Murray Stokely
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 11:33:27AM -0800, Hiten Pandya wrote: Shouldn't this be CC'ed to -doc as well? Maybe someone will write an article on a little release note kinda thing for this issue. Just an opinion from a -current user. :) We're collecting notes for a Testing Guide similar to

Re: Preparing innocent users for -current

2002-03-09 Thread Murray Stokely
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 04:55:29PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: One thing to keep in mind here is that this is still going to be a snapshot of -current, and not a production release of -stable. We want a snapshot that does not have any serious problems, but innocent users should still

Package set for release media

2002-03-10 Thread Murray Stokely
Does anyone have suggestions for additional packages that should be included on the upcoming Developer Preview snapshot that are not already listed in src/release/scripts/print-cdrom-packages.sh? The only changes since the release of 4.5 have been the inclusion of samba and the upgrade to

Re: CVS Issues with branch.. Was: Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( 1 week Feature Slush )

2002-03-14 Thread Murray Stokely
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:32:00AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Bruce A. Mah [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Differences of opinion on naming aside...the branch isn't supposed to last long at all. The point is to provide a slightly polished snapshot to the wider developer community. We

Re: CVS Issues with branch.. Was: Re: HEADS UP: Be nice to -CURRENT ( 1 week Feature Slush )

2002-03-14 Thread Murray Stokely
On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 04:40:08PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote: If this is going to be a static release (calling it RELENG_5_anything is a mistake IMHO) then this isn't a big deal. But if people are expecting it to have ongoing secirity fixes etc like we do with RELENG_4_5 etc then we have a

Call for Submissions: FreeBSD 5.0 DP1 Testing Guide

2002-03-14 Thread Murray Stokely
As part of the release documentation for 5.0 DP1, we would like to provide a comprehensive testing guide. If you have code in -CURRENT that you would like to receive feedback on from the developer preview, then please submit a short email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following: 1. A

Re: HEADS UP: -CURRENT Feature Slush is OVER

2002-03-17 Thread Murray Stokely
On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:08:51PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: I think it's an incredibly bad idea that we are not going to be able to reproduce what went onto any given CDROM in ten years. I agree that it is very important to be able to reproduce official releases of FreeBSD N years down

Re: HEADS UP: -CURRENT Feature Slush is OVER

2002-03-17 Thread Murray Stokely
On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 01:08:43AM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: Minimally, pick a date, and then do a CVS diff against that date, and include it on the CDROM. I would be happy to do this. I checked out a copy of the CVS tree right before we made the Perforce branch so that we could tag it

Re: USB mouse problem

2002-04-01 Thread Murray Stokely
On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Andrew Bliznak wrote: On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Masahide -mac- NODA wrote: Same here, solid lock, debug key not work. If I setup X to use /dev/ums0 computer hang just after startx. All worked with kernel/world from Mar 12. Me too. In my case I use an

Re: DP 1 install report

2002-04-11 Thread Murray Stokely
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 12:26:41AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: So far, the only other oddity I've noticed is that when I added the src distribution, all of the files were set 444. The directories have 755 permissions. Ahh. The problem here is related to the hoop we had to jump through

Re: Problem with rl

2002-04-14 Thread Murray Stokely
On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:51:16AM +0200, John Angelmo wrote: The errormessage I get is: rl0: RealTek 8139 10/100 Irq 5 at device 2.0 pci 1 Couldn't map ports/memory device_probe_and_attatch( rl0 attatch retuned 6) Is PNP OS installed selected in your BIOS? If so, try without this option