Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 13:32:37 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Subject: Re: Kernel panic on 4.7-STABLE to 5.0 RC2 upgrade. Message-ID: <XFMail.20030109133237.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3E1CD671.29FCBE72@mindspring.com>
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On 09-Jan-2003 Terry Lambert wrote: > "Julian H. Stacey" wrote: >> Terry Lambert wrote: >> > Because RC2 was not tagged, because We Fear CVS Tags(tm), you >> > will need to use a date in order to create your own RC2. >> >> Perhaps release build team are trying to avoid touching every file >> in the CVS tree, as global touching costs people receiving on modems >> & non flat rate extra telecom charges, (regardless of whether receiving >> via CVSup or CTM etc). > > I'm well aware of that (see other post). > > >> RC2 seems important though; so Although there's no tag in src/Makefile,v >> is there a CVS file containing a table of dates corresponding to >> EG RC2, RC1 etc ? (& if one doesnt exist, how about creating one ?). > > RC2 has additional changes, above and beyond a simple date tag > (see other post; I believe it was managed in P4, and you could > use _that_ to recover it). A tag, in this case, would only be > useful if the other RC2 changes (string changes, hacks to suppress > known bugs, etc., mostly) were made in a branch off the tag, in > the main source tree, rather than in P4. Not a convenient option, > all around, I'm afraid, though I agree that release candidates > should be tagged in the tree, so they can be recovered, for archival > reasons, if nothing else. 8-(. This is incorrect. Only DP1 and DP2 have diff's relative to current. The RC's are cut directly from -current. > The main point, though, is about getting the same sources for the > RC2 that won't install, in order to build an RC2 that's identical, > so it won't install, and then build an RC2 with a kernel with > symbols and DDB and BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER, so we can find out *why* it > won't install. These bits are quite easily obtained from the tarballs in the RC2 release that are available both via FTP and on the CD. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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