Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2005 21:08:50 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA2 Available Message-ID: <20050805210731.C924@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <20050805172712.GA66753@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <20050805172712.GA66753@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu>
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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 > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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