On 10/17/2017 01:51, Pierre Abbat wrote:
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?
Yes, unless you override the ABI in pkg.conf
DragonFly 4.9 was a dev branch.
As soon as 5.0 was released, the packages of the obsolete 4.9 branch
were removed.
As I said, if you don't want to upgrade to release (not recommended),
you can always set the ABI in pkg.conf to 5.0.
John
