The bug in FDVCS has been fixed.
I built a fresh version of T2505 and it installed without issue.
I have replaced the broken Interim Build on the server with the fixed version.
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> On May 1, 2025, at 2:49 PM, Jim Hall via Freedos-devel
> wrote:
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> I always forget the acronyms. I think RBE is the Release Build Environment.
>
> I don't remember what FDVCS stands for. Which one is that?
“FreeDOS” Version Control System (utility)
Its primary function is automatic pres
I always forget the acronyms. I think RBE is the Release Build Environment.
I don't remember what FDVCS stands for. Which one is that?
On Thu, May 1, 2025, 1:41 PM Jerome Shidel via Freedos-devel <
freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> I have looked into the issue.
>
> There is a bug in
I have looked into the issue.
There is a bug in new FDVCS when applying NLS updates to packages.
RBE3 automatically performs that update using FDVCS after fetching the packages
from GitLab.
The possibility of obscure bugs in the new FDVCS is the reason I did not want
to start using it until
I should add for anyone who's new and not familiar with FreeDOS: the
CDROM.BAT (in \freedos\bin) attempts multiple drivers to support the
CD-ROM drive, and it uses VECHO to print messages and VDELAY to make
brief pauses. Here's how to "hard-code" the CD-ROM driver manually
without it:
1. CD \freed
Thanks!
FYI that I get an error ("Unable to install the 'tools\v8power'
package) when installing T2505. My only options during the regular
install are reboot or return to DOS. (I'll send you a few screenshots
off-list.) I also tried SETUP ADV and was able to ignore the error
(skip it) and I also g
On Thu, May 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM Eric Auer via Freedos-devel
wrote:
> While it is nice to get NLS and installer updates, the
> really cool stuff seems to be what you said at the end:
>
> > A few packages had updates to their unstable branch after T2503 (RC3).
> > These will
> > not show up in this
Hi Jim,
let me inline and summarize that ;-)
These updates are usually shared here on freedos-devel by the
developers. Others are also posted as news items on the
www.freedos.org website. I didn't look them all up, but here are the
links to the SF-hosted feeds for several of these:
* fdisk
Hi!
While it is nice to get NLS and installer updates, the
really cool stuff seems to be what you said at the end:
A few packages had updates to their unstable branch after T2503 (RC3). These
will
not show up in this changes summary because they happened before FreeDOS 1.4
was released.
So,
