How/where should we be reporting such bugs? I reported a *very* easy to
reproduce hang situation with unionfs in BETA1 (and have updated/retested
as I see commits going through) over a week ago, and the biggest
'interest' I got out of it was from Robert Watson giving me suggestions
on
other stuff to provide :(
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Ken Smith wrote:
>
> Announcement
> ------------
>
> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the
availability
> of FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2.
>
> Because suitable pre-build packages are not widely available (see the
> Known Issues section below) BETA2 only has disc1 and bootonly ISOs
> available, and there are no FTP install trees.
>
> We encourage people to help with testing so any final bugs can be
identified
> and worked out. Availability of ISO images is given below. If you have
> an older system you want to update using the normal CVS/cvsup source based
> upgrade the branch tag to use is RELENG_6 (though that will change for the
> Release Candidates later). Problem reports can be submitted using the
> send-pr(1) command.
>
> The list of open issues and things still being worked on are on the
> todo list:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/todo.html
>
> Since this is the first release of a new branch we only have a rough
> idea for some of the dates. The current rough schedule is available
> but most dates are still listed as "TBD - To Be Determined":
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/schedule.html
>
> Known Issues
> ------------
>
> Prebuilt packages are not available at this time due to the recent bump
> of shared library version numbers. The installation procedure will
> fail to install things normally present as packages (e.g. perl). There
> is a full ports tree available so you can build anything you want to
> use from that.
>
> Availability
> ------------
>
> The BETA2 ISOs are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror sites. A list
> of the mirror sites is available here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
>
> The MD5s are:
>
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-alpha-bootonly.iso) = 800d6bf84642ade264fce2594b783136
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-alpha-disc1.iso) = 12cbc4fbf616a8a6c70184aaa3e389a4
>
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso) = 4e027ebc30157677464e8a4766d6f924
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-amd64-disc1.iso) = 2e54efd31dc63dadf5b68b4345233611
>
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-i386-bootonly.iso) = 70129bbc9e490836de7544230b6bc6fb
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-i386-disc1.iso) = 3b1917c8143cbc99b22fc50e405c710f
>
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-ia64-bootonly.iso) = 60a277555ae190b30113cd2fab9a3d64
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-ia64-disc1.iso) = a89acc0a1493b8c4d3786ddef33bdf42
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-ia64-livefs.iso) = 85d0f5d14d0e8b1697aa2c4dcdf73f68
>
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-pc98-disc1.iso) = bfca0ea211c1f977204b9677720289db
>
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-sparc64-bootonly.iso) = a79dae4b17b14dda908b84ac388a411b
> MD5 (6.0-BETA2-sparc64-disc1.iso) = 6aaefe58e249057d4b7d2418ec1c52c5
>
> -ken
>
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