On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Ken Smith wrote:
Hi,
let me reply to the very initial email in this monster of public thread.
With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not availa
Yes, freebsd-update is the way to go... I got it done on my home/test
server.
back in the office where I have one machine on it thou.
# uname -a
FreeBSD rhino.matrix 9.1-BETA1 FreeBSD 9.1-BETA1 #0 r239929M: Fri Aug 31
12:42:47 EST 2012 root@rhino.matrix:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
#
John Marshall riverwillow.com.au> writes:
>
> I've just installed an Intel server from a 9.1-RC1 CD. This was my first
> encounter with the new installer. I didn't like the look of what the
> Auto option showed me for drive partitioning, so I tried Manual and
> found that confusing.
> ...
Fair
I've just installed an Intel server from a 9.1-RC1 CD. This was my first
encounter with the new installer. I didn't like the look of what the
Auto option showed me for drive partitioning, so I tried Manual and
found that confusing.
I ended up choosing the Shell option for drive partitioning and ca
Brandon Allbery wrote:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:26 PM, David Wolfskillwrote:
While the exercise was ultimately successful, I needed to make use of
additional hardware (including a second FreeBSD machine -- my laptop) to
complete it. Had I been trying to install with just the target machine
an
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:26 PM, David Wolfskill wrote:
> While the exercise was ultimately successful, I needed to make use of
> additional hardware (including a second FreeBSD machine -- my laptop) to
> complete it. Had I been trying to install with just the target machine
> and the USB drive (
I had occasion yesterday to install FreeBSD on a machine (an HP Compaq
dx7200 Slim Tower) that had never (AFAIK) had FreeBSD installed on it.
Since I don't often use the installer, I thought it might be good to try
the 9.1-RC1 installer.
While the exercise was ultimately successful, I needed to m
On 8/30/2012 9:53 AM, Stas Verberkt wrote:
>> I spent a little time today setting up an SVN mirror after reading this
>> thread and wrote up a how-to for those looking to do the same.
>>
>> http://www.pingle.org/2012/08/24/freebsd-svn-mirror
>>
>> Comments/Flames/Corrections welcome...
>>
> Just wo
Jim Pingle schreef op :
On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote:
I found two good primers:
http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-gu
On 8/25/2012 4:33 AM, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> But my real problem is that svn is not in the base system. And for
> example installing subversion package on my cvsup mirror failed because
> pkg-config-0-25_1 was installed and sqlite, a dependency of subversion,
> wants to install pkgconf-0.8.5.
On 28/08/2012, Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
> Jim Pingle writes:
>
>> On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote:
I found two good primers:
http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.ht
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
>
The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
> systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 9.0-RELEASE
> can upgrade as follows:
>
> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC1
>
> This has not been worki
Jim Pingle writes:
> On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:
>> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote:
>>>
>>> I found two good primers:
>>> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/co
On 23 Aug 2012, at 22:52, "Simon L. B. Nielsen" wrote:
>
> On 23 Aug 2012, at 20:41, Peter Wemm wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:04:07PM +0200, Alexandre wrote:
> > No. freebsd-update(8) is a binary system updater. It does not touch
> > your source tree.
> >
>
> Freebsd-update tool installs binary updates for -RELEASE branch only (base
> system + GENERIC kernel). By default, /usr/src is synced.
On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 04:42 -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:19:36PM -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> > ...
> > There are two things that I am confused about "base."
> >
> > 1) What, exactly, is base? When I do a co, what tree branch is that?
>
> Using CVS, failure to spe
On Saturday, August 25, 2012, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:55:48AM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote:
> > Quoth Ken Smith >:
> > >
> > > The latter. If you are not using FreeBSD-Update to handle the updates
> > > of a machine you'll need to update your source tree using SVN for
> > > rel
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:19:36PM -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> ...
> There are two things that I am confused about "base."
>
> 1) What, exactly, is base? When I do a co, what tree branch is that?
Using CVS, failure to specify a tag would get you HEAD.
Using SVN, failure to specify a branch w
[Removing re@]
On 25 Aug 2012, at 10:33, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> schrieb Peter Wemm am 24.08.2012 00:14 (localtime):
>> ...
>> You'll also find out very quickly how much fsync(2) hurts on a softdep
>> or su+j system. The svn fsfs backend does a fsync multiple times per
>> revision to guara
schrieb Peter Wemm am 24.08.2012 00:14 (localtime):
> ...
> You'll also find out very quickly how much fsync(2) hurts on a softdep
> or su+j system. The svn fsfs backend does a fsync multiple times per
> revision to guarantee its transaction boundaries.
Not only on softdep ufs, also with zfs I'm
[ Jim Pingle wrote on Fri 24.Aug'12 at 23:07:30 -0400 ]
> On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote:
> >>
> >> I found two good primers:
> >> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html
> >>
On Fri, 2012-08-24 at 23:07 -0400, Jim Pingle wrote:
> On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote:
> >>
> >> I found two good primers:
> >> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html
> >> http
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:18:39AM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> In article <20120825041357.gd1...@glenbarber.us>, g...@freebsd.org writes:
> >On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:55:48AM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote:
> >> 1. Is is sensible|supported to use freebsd-update to update just the src
> >> component,
In article <20120825041357.gd1...@glenbarber.us>, g...@freebsd.org writes:
>On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:55:48AM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote:
>> 1. Is is sensible|supported to use freebsd-update to update just the src
>> component, followed by a normal buildworld/buildkernel to update the
>> rest of the
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 04:55:48AM +0100, Ben Morrow wrote:
> Quoth Ken Smith :
> >
> > The latter. If you are not using FreeBSD-Update to handle the updates
> > of a machine you'll need to update your source tree using SVN for
> > release branches (releng/*) from now on. Updates of the CVS repo
Quoth Ken Smith :
>
> The latter. If you are not using FreeBSD-Update to handle the updates
> of a machine you'll need to update your source tree using SVN for
> release branches (releng/*) from now on. Updates of the CVS repository
> will continue for the existing stable/* and head for now. I
On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote:
>>
>> I found two good primers:
>> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#
On 8/23/2012 11:06 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Excerpt from announcement by Ken Smith :
>
>> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
>> csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Peter Wemm wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Thomas Mueller
> wrote:
>> Excerpt from announcement by Ken Smith :
>>
>>> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>>> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Excerpt from announcement by Ken Smith :
>
>> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
>> csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for up
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:18:09 -0500, Konstantin Belousov
wrote:
This is a statement that is false at least two times, if not three.
This was a question about Kernel Binary Inteface, not Application
Binary Interface.
I actually did mean to say KBI instead of ABI :-/
First, we have zero guar
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:41:03PM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
> * We have some "seed" tarballs of recently synced repo images around
> somewhere. I'll see where they're available. But in a nutshell, you
> do this:
> /home/peter/svnsync$ fetch svnmirror-base-r123456.txz
> /home/peter/svnsync$ tar
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:01:06 -0700 (PDT)
Dennis Glatting wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Trond Endrest?l wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:25-0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 09:47 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 05:41:49PM -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:37:04 -0500, Walter Hurry
> wrote:
>
> >One thing (welcome, but puzzling) which surprised me was that my
> >vboxguest.ko did *not* need to be recompiled. How did the upgrade manage
> >that?
>
> FreeBSD has a
Excerpt from announcement by Ken Smith :
> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
> csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1.
> If you would like to use SVN the branch t
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 08:57:21AM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote:
> On 24/08/12 08:14, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > Back when I did the first mirror for making a seed, ...
>
> If you have a complete CVS mirror repo (I'm using cvsup-mirror from ports),
> can you make your own seeds using cvs2svn to create loca
On 24/08/12 08:14, Peter Wemm wrote:
Back when I did the first mirror for making a seed, ...
If you have a complete CVS mirror repo (I'm using cvsup-mirror from ports),
can you make your own seeds using cvs2svn to create local read-only SVN
repos, then begin using svnsync from the master/mirror
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 17:41:49 -0500, Mark Felder wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:37:04 -0500, Walter Hurry
> wrote:
>
>> One thing (welcome, but puzzling) which surprised me was that my
>> vboxguest.ko did *not* need to be recompiled. How did the upgrade
>> manage that?
>
> FreeBSD has a stable
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:37:04 -0500, Walter Hurry
wrote:
One thing (welcome, but puzzling) which surprised me was that my
vboxguest.ko did *not* need to be recompiled. How did the upgrade manage
that?
FreeBSD has a stable ABI unlike Linux. A kernel module compiled for any
9.x release shoul
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 2:52 PM, Simon L. B. Nielsen wrote:
>
> On 23 Aug 2012, at 20:41, Peter Wemm wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch
On 23 Aug 2012, at 20:41, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>>
With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not ava
On 8/23/2012 10:36 AM, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> On 8/23/2012 9:28 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:47:54 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
>> > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > With both the doc a
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:47 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>
>> > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>> > decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> The first release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now
> available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, and powerpc64. The
> MD5/SHA256 checksums are at the bottom of this message. The ISO images
> and, for architectures that sup
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 09:13:33AM -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> ...
> > The second primer in the committer handbook seems to indicate that it is
> > difficult to run an SVN mirror. This appears to me to be the biggest
> > drawback. I have been using CVS and perforce for years, but subversion
On 8/23/2012 11:43 AM, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote:
>>
>> I found two good primers:
>> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#
On Aug 23, 2012, at 10:13 AM, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> If CVS is fading then I need to move my CVS mirrors to SVN mirrors.
CVS is fading. Migrate to svn.
Warner
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schrieb Ian Lepore :
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote:
> >
> > I found two good primers:
> > http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committer
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Ken Menzel wrote:
On 8/23/2012 9:47 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
> decided to not export the 9.1 rele
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Trond Endrest?l wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:25-0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 09:47 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> With both the doc and ports rep
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 11:17 -0400, Ken Menzel wrote:
>
> I found two good primers:
> http://mebsd.com/configure-freebsd-servers/update-freebsd-source-tree-using-subversion-svn.html
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/committers-guide/article.html#SUBVERSION-PRIMER
>
> The second primer in th
On 8/23/2012 9:28 AM, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:47:54 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
On 8/23/2012 9:47 AM, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>>
>> > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
>> > decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 07:25-0700, Dennis Glatting wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 09:47 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> > > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > >
> > > > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 09:47:54 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> >
> > > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
> > > decided to not export the 9.1 release bra
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 09:47 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> >
> > > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
> > > decided to not export the 9.1 release branch ac
On Thu, 2012-08-23 at 23:12 +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
>
> > With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
> > decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
> > csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not a
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:50:46 -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> With both the doc and ports repositories now moved to SVN it has been
> decided to not export the 9.1 release branch activity to CVS. So
> csup/cvsup update mechanisms are not available for updating to 9.1-RC1.
> If you would like to use
The first release candidate of the 9.1-RELEASE release cycle is now
available on the FTP servers for amd64, i386, and powerpc64. The
MD5/SHA256 checksums are at the bottom of this message. The ISO images
and, for architectures that support it, the memory stick images are
available here:
ftp:/
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