On Thu, January 5, 2006 5:25 am, Richard Nyberg said:
If you run df 1.4 there's no need to build the bootstrap as bmake and
friends are already installed. At least if you install from the RC2 cd.
Hmm... upgrading from 1.2 to 1.4 does not seem to bring in those tools.
Should it?
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:On Thu, January 5, 2006 5:25 am, Richard Nyberg said:
:
: If you run df 1.4 there's no need to build the bootstrap as bmake and
: friends are already installed. At least if you install from the RC2 cd.
:
:Hmm... upgrading from 1.2 to 1.4 does not seem to bring in those tools.
:Should it?
I am finishing up the release engineering today and will roll an ISO for
overnight distribution to our mirrors this evening, along with the
necessary web pages and such. I am going to give our mirrors a day
to get the ISO's before I make the web pages live so the official
:
:If the machine has 3-4GB of memory why shouldn't the vnode and buffer
:cache do some better auto tunning. If the kernel has a VM system
:shouldn't the kernel be aware of how much memory is in use for the
:entire system and make all of the system caches larger ?
The kernel is fairly
Matthew Dillon wrote:
I am finishing up the release engineering today and will roll an ISO for
overnight distribution to our mirrors this evening, along with the
necessary web pages and such. I am going to give our mirrors a day
to get the ISO's before I make the web pages live
On Thu, January 5, 2006 12:08 pm, Matthew Dillon said:
Another option is to run the targets in /usr/src/nrelease:
cd /usr/src/nrelease
make pkgsrc_bootstrap
make pkgsrc_conf
It looks like there's 3 scenarios:
Fresh install of 1.4: build as above
Upgrade to 1.4, already
On 1/5/06, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:
:If the machine has 3-4GB of memory why shouldn't the vnode and buffer
:cache do some better auto tunning. If the kernel has a VM system
:shouldn't the kernel be aware of how much memory is in use for the
:entire system and make all of the
:thanks for that info.
:
:btw, how's the address space split beetween on dragonfly?
:On linux/x86 is kernel 1GB, app: 3GB
:on windows/x86 is kernel 2GB, apps: 2GB, supposadly tunnable, but I
:couldn't get the 1:3 split I needed on win2k nor winXP.
:I don't know how's that on BSD systems...
:It looks like there's 3 scenarios:
:
:Fresh install of 1.4: build as above
:
:Upgrade to 1.4, already using pkgsrc: all set
:
:My scenario: upgrade from 1.2 (ports) to 1.4 (pkgsrc): either remove all
:ports and then build as above, or build the bootstrap with a custom
:pkgdbdir, as the default
