Just checking in, yet again, to ask about the status of FreeBSD 9.1. We've been delaying construction of new servers (which we wanted to build during the US Thanksgiving holiday) until the release, and really want to be able to work on them over Christmas. I understand that the release was held back by server security issues and possibly by problems with CLANG's failure to emulate obscure quirks of GCC; are these now resolved? Is there anything else on the "TODO" list (the version on the Wiki is of no help; it's woefully out of date) to be done prior to release? Does the FreeBSD project need a fresh server to be donated to handle the release? --Brett Glass
It's still progressing, albeit slowly. There's been a lot of security checking going on in the background as part of this task and that takes time. Adrian
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It will be released when it is ready. On 12/8/2012 9:18 PM, Brett Glass wrote:> Just checking in, yet again, to ask about the status of FreeBSD > 9.1. We've been delaying construction of new servers (which we > wanted to build during the US Thanksgiving holiday) until the > release, and really want to be able to work on them over Christmas. > I understand that the release was held back by server security > issues and possibly by problems with CLANG's failure to emulate > obscure quirks of GCC; are these now resolved? Is there anything > else on the "TODO" list (the version on the Wiki is of no help; > it's woefully out of date) to be done prior to release? Does the > FreeBSD project need a fresh server to be donated to handle the > release? > > --Brett Glass > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To > unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQxBL1AAoJEAGnn5Nn8qWUrPAH/2cgbQ3BYL+E6B1C0Vce0XNY Yxf7IQByzLCsmdXJW62OZoXkOvS1RV/bPFqqiOtd/Vl6v7eaxQgXmXTZuf401eRD FHz2/j9j0BouVnU2nOwcrQxrjB5phjqpAe/87MWrqR2/bQFt3/b7x5EC/oB1hKJ6 5S5A0/Yukh//gpaA5LcMxLZuus3xmRKA7zUugiYi9x8eis+pNu/7n470nnKtZKkZ pRvGxr4F/olUqj0yOw/Pqap9a41Xc4R8L1MjZfbu2fs5ob60qPMva00WEhBgOKQy xfkLFU7hHj+KaZ3AqdoHQbmsiKrMjjK/q1aeibS8nEDMB+RF8T8xoCd33P33960=aroh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Saturday 08 December 2012 22:26:30 Chris Petrik wrote:> It will be released when it is ready. >Perfect answer... And one hour after release thounsands of new ports for building on Christmas time ): Mitja -------- http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa
This is good answer for end users, not so much when somebody is genuinely concerned if there were some unforeseen issues. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Will-we-get-a-RELEASE-9-1-for-Christmas-tp5767716p5767785.html Sent from the freebsd-stable mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 2012-12-09 04:18, Brett Glass wrote:> Just checking in, yet again, to ask about the status of FreeBSD > 9.1. We've been delaying construction of new servers (which we > wanted to build during the US Thanksgiving holiday) until the > release, and really want to be able to work on them over Christmas. > I understand that the release was held back by server security > issues and possibly by problems with CLANG's failure to emulate > obscure quirks of GCC;It has nothing to do with clang; it is not the default compiler for 9.1, and will never be for the 9.x series. Using it to compile your system (or ports) is entirely optional.
Brett Glass <brett <at> lariat.net> writes:> > Just checking in, yet again, to ask about the status of FreeBSD > 9.1. We've been delaying construction of new servers (which we > wanted to build during the US Thanksgiving holiday) until the > release, and really want to be able to work on them over Christmas. > I understand that the release was held back by server security > issues and possibly by problems with CLANG's failure to emulate > obscure quirks of GCC; are these now resolved? Is there anything > else on the "TODO" list (the version on the Wiki is of no help; > it's woefully out of date) to be done prior to release? Does the > FreeBSD project need a fresh server to be donated to handle the release? > > --Brett GlassA few days ago I installed 9.0 and tested twice: - updating security/errata - updating ports tree with portsnap - setting up the system for Linux, Java, browsers (as in Handbook) - and then from ports to make work the usual suspects: cdrecord, smartmontools It all seems to be OK until, after many subsequent ports tree updates, I decided to update xterm, vlc, xfce, pan from ports. If I managed to update some of them, then it seemed the dependencies hell or something else started to take effect and I could not finish building them because they were dying with errors. I have done such an exercise in the past many times and I never failed to bring my system to a stable state. Only after this security compromise, time wise, things were so unstable. I understand that releng people will build all packages once more right before 9.1 release, but perhaps caution is warranted - would 9.1-RC4 make sense ? jb
On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:37 PM, jb <jb.1234abcd at gmail.com> wrote:> A few days ago I installed 9.0 and tested twice: > (..) > Only after this security compromise, time wise, things were so unstable. > I understand that releng people will build all packages once more right before > 9.1 release, but perhaps caution is warranted - would 9.1-RC4 make sense ?Was also true for me to crash the 9.0 system with dependencies inconsistency after some time. But! Try 9.1-RC3 and use PORTINSTALL (ports-mgmt/portupgrade port) - see how beautiful life become when you only type what program you wand and it gets installed from BINARY PACKAGES with all necessary dependencies :-) So far I have no problem at all with portinstall on two machines running 9.1-RC3 for some weeks. PORTINSTALL should become a standard equipment of FreeBSD :-) Best regards :-) Tomek -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
CeDeROM <cederom <at> tlen.pl> writes:> ... > Was also true for me to crash the 9.0 system with dependencies > inconsistency after some time. But! Try 9.1-RC3 and use PORTINSTALL > ...The reason I abandoned 9.1-RC? was the security update statement that "It is believed that the compromise may have occurred as early as the 19th September 2012." I looked at 9.1 release schedule and saw this: Action Expected Actual RC1 2012-07-20 2012-08-23 RC2 2012-09-07 2012-10-09 ... and decided to drop the ball, go back to 9.0 and bring myself up from there. The result was as described. jb
At 07:42 AM 12/9/2012, Dimitry Andric wrote:>It has nothing to do with clang; it is not the default compiler for 9.1, >and will never be for the 9.x series. Using it to compile your system >(or ports) is entirely optional.I am actually eagerly awaiting a completely "un-GNUed" toolchain. But I am glad that this is not the holdup. I just need to plan my time so that I get a vacation SOMETIME this season and also keep my commitments. Alas, there have been no updates to the projected schedule or to the "To Do" list to help me out. --Brett Glass
Is the SVN revision gonna disappear from the uname -a output ? I hope. cheers, 2012/12/12 Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com>> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 11:18:44AM -0500, Mark Saad wrote: > > the ISO are on the master server > > The release is official when, and only when, a signed email from the > release engineering team says that it is. > > In a past release cycle there was indeed a last-minute fix that had > to be made after the ISO had already started propogating. > > mcl > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable at freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe at freebsd.org" >-- Demelier David
> Is the SVN revision gonna disappear from the uname -a output ? I hope.This comment surprises me - having the svn revision there is one of the best thigns about moving to svn from csup for me. I can look at a running machine, and know how to chekcout precisely the code is was built from. Very useful. -pete.
Problem is not release, problem are ports: second day and I am still running update for cyrus-sasl and pcre new because there are so many errors. Today I check /usr/ports/UPDATE and I saw another week for update: ImageMagick -r... And than after March we will gt GIMP 2.8, KDE whatever version...and New year will be here... And the same story repeat again... On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 5:26 AM, ajtiM <lumiwa at gmail.com> wrote:> On Saturday 08 December 2012 22:26:30 Chris Petrik wrote: > > It will be released when it is ready. > > > > Perfect answer... And one hour after release thounsands of new ports for > building on Christmas time ): > > > Mitja > -------- > http://www.redbubble.com/people/lumiwa >