Brett Glass <brett <at> lariat.net> writes: > > Just checking in, yet again, to ask about the status of FreeBSD > 9.1. We've been delaying construction of new servers (which we > wanted to build during the US Thanksgiving holiday) until the > release, and really want to be able to work on them over Christmas. > I understand that the release was held back by server security > issues and possibly by problems with CLANG's failure to emulate > obscure quirks of GCC; are these now resolved? Is there anything > else on the "TODO" list (the version on the Wiki is of no help; > it's woefully out of date) to be done prior to release? Does the > FreeBSD project need a fresh server to be donated to handle the release? > > --Brett Glass
A few days ago I installed 9.0 and tested twice: - updating security/errata - updating ports tree with portsnap - setting up the system for Linux, Java, browsers (as in Handbook) - and then from ports to make work the usual suspects: cdrecord, smartmontools It all seems to be OK until, after many subsequent ports tree updates, I decided to update xterm, vlc, xfce, pan from ports. If I managed to update some of them, then it seemed the dependencies hell or something else started to take effect and I could not finish building them because they were dying with errors. I have done such an exercise in the past many times and I never failed to bring my system to a stable state. Only after this security compromise, time wise, things were so unstable. I understand that releng people will build all packages once more right before 9.1 release, but perhaps caution is warranted - would 9.1-RC4 make sense ? jb _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
