Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3
At 01:51 AM 7/24/2005, Robert Slade wrote: Hi, As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=. There's no tags in ports like there are in src. You have to specify a date. Take a look at the checkout mode section in the cvsup man page for more details. -Glenn Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3
Robert Slade wrote: As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=. There are not much reasons to use an old version of the ports. Do you have a specific problem? By the way, most likely you mean that you want to go back to 5.3-RELEASE. The operating system whose uname -r shows 5.3-STABLE is one of thousands states between November 2004 and May 2005. Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 10:26, Björn König wrote: Robert Slade wrote: As I have been having problems with 5.4 on my Compaq Pl5000, I would like to go back to 5.3-Stable. Is it possible to roll back the ports via CVSUP to 5.3 by just changing the TAG=. There are not much reasons to use an old version of the ports. Do you have a specific problem? By the way, most likely you mean that you want to go back to 5.3-RELEASE. The operating system whose uname -r shows 5.3-STABLE is one of thousands states between November 2004 and May 2005. Björn Thank you for the reply. My problem is that the machine worked fine with 5.3. The Machine is Qad processor 1 Gb ram with hardware raid with 5 drives set as 2 Raid arrays and 1 spare. I did a CVSup to RELENG_5. I rebuilt world and the kernel. Here the problems started. On booting it could not find any hard drives. It tried to boot the correct drive, but failed. At the mountroot prompt the ? option only lists the CD and FD. As far as I can tell it is a problem with GEOM trying to take over the raid. I can boot using kernel.old. From the 5.4 release notes GEOM is mandatory for 5.4. As I do not have the expertise to fix this and I would rather have a working system, I would like to role back to 5.3 as this worked. I assume that if I did a CVSup with TAG=5.3 this should get me back to 5.3_stable. I am not convinced though. Is this correct? Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3
Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I do not have the expertise to fix this and I would rather have a working system, I would like to role back to 5.3 as this worked. I assume that if I did a CVSup with TAG=5.3 this should get me back to 5.3_stable. I am not convinced though. Is this correct? AFAIK, the only 5 thing called stable is 5-STABLE = RELENG_5, which, of course, is not stable; for that reason, you might try getting and trying it again -- you might have grabbed it at a bad moment, like between updates. And I'm not aware of a 5.3 tag other than RELENG_5_3 (the latest bug-fix release) and RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE (the original release). As for the ports, I doubt that you need to do anything, but it sounds from /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade/pkg-descr that there's a way to revert ports as needed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverting Ports 5.4 - 5.3
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 15:03, Gary W. Swearingen wrote: Robert Slade [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I do not have the expertise to fix this and I would rather have a working system, I would like to role back to 5.3 as this worked. I assume that if I did a CVSup with TAG=5.3 this should get me back to 5.3_stable. I am not convinced though. Is this correct? AFAIK, the only 5 thing called stable is 5-STABLE = RELENG_5, which, of course, is not stable; for that reason, you might try getting and trying it again -- you might have grabbed it at a bad moment, like between updates. And I'm not aware of a 5.3 tag other than RELENG_5_3 (the latest bug-fix release) and RELENG_5_3_0_RELEASE (the original release). As for the ports, I doubt that you need to do anything, but it sounds from /usr/ports/sysutils/portdowngrade/pkg-descr that there's a way to revert ports as needed. Thanks Gary, I'm now very confused. I CVSuped with TAG=5.3, built world and the Kernel, but got the same problem with the boot disk not found. I'm not sure what to do next. I guess that I could try installing world in case that cures the problem the worst that could happen is that I can't boot the system. I can always reinstall from CD - that is probably quicker than trying to build a RELENG_5_3_0_Release. Rob ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
