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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:19:26 -0500
From:      David Booth <davidb@boothscientific.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.0-BETA1.5 Available...
Message-ID:  <200710252319.27118.davidb@boothscientific.com>
In-Reply-To: <1193351234.93167.21.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu>
References:  <1193351234.93167.21.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu>

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On Thursday 25 October 2007, Ken Smith wrote:
> Sorry, I had a bit of a false start with 7.0-BETA1.  I've got sets
> of build machines used for the Monthly Snapshots and procedures in
> place to try and minimize the mistakes I could make while doing
> those Snapshots (previously one set for HEAD, one set for
> RELENG_6).  The set of machines I'll be using for the 7.0-RELEASE
> build are the ones that had previously been doing the HEAD
> snapshots and I missed doing one very important adjustment to the
> build routine while doing the BETA1 builds, which resulted in the
> builds being based on HEAD.  I didn't notice during the tests I do
> before uploading it because the build procedure makes most things
> (e.g. uname) say what you told it to build, you need to look harder
> to discover that sort of mistake.  So, 7.0-BETA1 actually should
> have been called something more like 8.0-SURPRISE...  :-(
>
> Sorry for the screw-up.
>

This change seems to break portupgrade.  It complains that it cannot 
parse the output of uname.  I think it is not capable of handling the 
1.5 after the BETA.




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