On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Thomas Mueller <muelle...@insightbb.com> wrote: > from Mark Linimon <lini...@lonesome.com>: > >> In an ideal world, the bits that will almost certainly become FreeBSD 9.1 >> would not appear on the masters, or any of the mirrors, until the same >> instant that the release announcement is set to freebsd-annou...@freebsd.org. > >> In practice this doesn't happen. If there is some clever way for that to >> happen, we haven't found it yet. > >> It has happened in the past that even as the release bits were propogating, >> One Last Big Bug was found and those bits had to be pulled and re-done. It >> would have looked like you had FreeBSD Release X.Y but you wouldn't have had >> the final bits that everyone else did. > >> I understand your frustration that this process takes days, and in general >> the frustration with this particular release -- more than you could possibly >> believe. However, until we figure out the process that would exist in an >> ideal world, this is what we have, and so if you need something that will be >> in 9.1, your options at this moment are: build an install from 9-STABLE; find >> one of the snapshots (and no, I am not the one to ask, sorry); or wait. > >> Sorry, but that's the best I can offer right now. > >> mcl > > So that's why I downloaded-updated source tree using svn, built and installed, > and uname -a revealed 9.1-PRERELEASE. It seemed strange after 9.1-RELEASE > became available on FTP servers December 5. Maybe they can do something to > better document "device ctl" in GENERIC; I kept it because it was there, and > one is led to think it is needed due to changes in FreeBSD. > > > Tom
Most likely you took the stable/9 aka 9-STABLE sources. They have internal name "9.1-PRERELEASE" until the 9.1-RELEASE goes out of the door. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"