On Monday, October 16, 2017 11:25:13 AM EDT Matthew Dillon wrote: > Hi folks! So 5.0 is out the door, and this is probably going to be our > stable release for the next few months. Master is about to get a pile of > commits and should be considered a bit more experimental over the next few > months than it would normally be. So if you normally run master, but you > want stability, we recommend sticking with the 5.0 release for a few months. > > Now that 5.0 is out the door, master is going to start getting some really > fun performance commits for beefier systems with lots of cores. However, > the most important of these commits is also relatively dangerous as it > involves avoid global IPIs by not fully synchronizing the page tables > backing the buffer cache. Any corruption in that area of the kernel can > directly effect filesystem integrity, which is why I am posting this > warning now.
I just tried "pkg search" and got this error: pkg: Repository Avalon missing. 'pkg update' required pkg: Repository Avalon load error: access repo file(/var/db/pkg/repo- Avalon.sqlite) failed: No such file or directory pkg: http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/dports/dragonfly:4.10:x86:64/ LATEST/meta.txz: Not Found pkg: http://mirror-master.dragonflybsd.org/dports/dragonfly:4.10:x86:64/ LATEST/packagesite.txz: Not Found I'm running 4.9 compiled August 8. Do I have to upgrade in order to get any packages? Pierre -- I believe in Yellow when I'm in Sweden and in Black when I'm in Wales.