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JFYI for those of you who aren't subscribed to the announce@ mailing
list... 9.0-RELEASE is, finally, announced. The announcement message
is available here:
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html
Lots of you noticed that the 9.0-RELEASE ISO and memstick images
appeared on the FTP sites a while ago. But as pointed out this
release turned out to be an example of why the "official policy" is
that it's not truly released until the announcement email gets sent
out. I had not tested using sysinstall(8) to install pre-built
packages from the DVD during my initial testing since we're sorta
moving away from sysinstall(8). I had just tested installing the
pre-built packages using pkg_add(8). Someone noticed sysinstall(8)
misbehaved before I got the images put up on Bittorrent and the
fix was simply adding one file to the DVD image that the new build
infrastructure omitted since bsdinstall(8) doesn't use it. So I
went ahead with replacing the DVD images on the FTP site. That's
also why we waited longer than normal between the images appearing
on the FTP sites and the announcement - we gave extra time to try
and make sure the updated images got to all the FTP mirrors. Sorry
about the screw-up.
If you downloaded the amd64 and/or i386 DVD images before now you
might want to check the checksums with the ones posted in the
release announcement. The fix to make sysinstall(8) happy about
installing from the DVD images was the *only* change made to the
updated images. The "bad" images were never available via
Bittorrent so if you got the images that way you wouldn't have
a bad image.
On behalf of the Release Engineering Team and the FreeBSD Developers
we hope you enjoy 9.0-RELEASE.
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Ken Smith
- - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@buffalo.edu
there, funny things are everywhere. |
- Theodor Geisel |
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On 01/13/2012 00:54, Ken Smith wrote:> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > JFYI for those of you who aren't subscribed to the announce@ mailing > list... 9.0-RELEASE is, finally, announced. The announcement message > is available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/announce.html >snip.. Do we have a chance of finding "somewhere" the RELNOTES.TXT, etc or do we have to build them ourself ?? Claude Buisson
13.01.2012 06:54, Ken Smith ?????:> If you downloaded the amd64 and/or i386 DVD images before now you > might want to check the checksums with the ones posted in the > release announcement. The fix to make sysinstall(8) happy about > installing from the DVD images was the *only* change made to the > updated images. The "bad" images were never available via > Bittorrent so if you got the images that way you wouldn't have > a bad image.I've just downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso using official torrent tracker linked in original announcement. I use "transmission" torrent client running under FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE. MD5 of the resulting image does not match: MD5 (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso) = b23ef73412bd50ed62ef8613ca1a4199 I've removed the torrent and downloaded file and tried again, got the same wrong MD5. I've tried the image with VirtualBox, virtual machine starts and hangs hard at "Checksum verification" stage. Is it my local problem or Bittorrent's image is wrong? Eugene Grosbein
On 01/14/2012 11:00, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote:> Ken Smith<kensmith@buffalo.edu> wrote: > >> The release notes were not ready at the point we started up the >> release builds so the online versions are the only ones that have >> any useful information in them. > > Perhaps the final version could be made MFCd to the errata/security > branch, and/or added to the FTP sites alongside the ISOs. > > In the future, might it be useful to delay the release until the > release notes are available? I would _guess_ that doing a partial > build, of only the release notes, would not take all that long. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >And can we say that 9.0-RELEASE is the first FreeBSD release not including the release documentation on the distribution media ? On an another topic, as the author of PR 162190, I am afraid that this release, as built, is not able to play audio CDs with popular applications like VLC: the needed commit (r230014) has been done by mav@ in stable/9 on Jan 12. Claude Buisson