RELENG_4 installworld fails

2000-03-16 Thread Oleg Ogurok
Just cvsup'ed sources from cvsup3.freebsd.org. Buildworld went through, here's what I am getting trying installworld: ===> lib/libcom_err cd /usr/src/lib/libcom_err && install -C -o root -g wheel -m 444 /usr/src/lib/libcom_err/../../contrib/com_err/com_err.h /usr/include cd /usr/src/lib/libcom_

Re: which branch?

2000-03-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > Not to start a big discussion on the release process (again), but for the > QA team's sake there should be a day or 3 delay between the release tag and > the grand send off to allow time for 11th hour problems. The few more > problematic I saw

Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format"

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 08:41 AM 3/17/00 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >On 2000-Mar-17 08:19:36 +1100, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >Not sure if the behaviour changed, but the other gotcha is that / and swap > >must be sequential on the disk (or was it same partition/drive). > >I don't recall ever

Re: which branch?

2000-03-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jamie Norwood wrote: > So really, then, it is only recently that people should even have been moving > from 2.2.x to 3.x? This doesn't seem to make sense to me. So we are selling > an unstable version in the stores? One we don't recommend normal people > install? No, I didn'

Re: Perl Locale

2000-03-16 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Thursday, March 16, Javier Frias wrote: ] > I've been playing around with 4.0 stable, just to get a feel for it, and > i've > come across this oddity, whenever a perl based system script is run > from an xterm, i get a locale error, and this does not happen when it is > run > from outsite an

Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions

2000-03-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kris Kennaway writes: : I still think we should be recommending people use 'make buildkernel' to : build GENERIC and minimize the possibility of foot-shooting from a stupid : config file which then gets blamed on 4.0 itself. Besides, I tried to : rebuild my kernel f

Re: which branch?

2000-03-16 Thread Jamie Norwood
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:58:32AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Oleg Ogurok wrote: > > > > > Does 4.0-STABLE exists? > > Yes. Of course since the 4.x branch has only just been born, there are > likely to be some problems worked out over the course of the next few > weeks,

Perl Locale

2000-03-16 Thread Javier Frias
I've been playing around with 4.0 stable, just to get a feel for it, and i've come across this oddity, whenever a perl based system script is run from an xterm, i get a locale error, and this does not happen when it is run from outsite an xterm. the locale error is as follows: perl: warning: Sett

Re: which branch?

2000-03-16 Thread Jamie Norwood
So really, then, it is only recently that people should even have been moving from 2.2.x to 3.x? This doesn't seem to make sense to me. So we are selling an unstable version in the stores? One we don't recommend normal people install? Jamie On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 12:31:19PM -0800, Kris Kennaway

Re: which branch?

2000-03-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jamie Norwood wrote: > -STABLE is supposed to be safe to put on a server. If 4.x is .not. yet > safe... Why is it in -STABLE? This kinda bugs me as it fairly well defeats > the point of having a -STABLE if it isn't, in fact, stable. -STABLE means the branch which only gets m

Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format"

2000-03-16 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: > At 08:33 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > >If possible, you should install a small NTFS partition and a small > >FreeBSD slice (only ``/'') below the 1023rd cylinder and use the > >remaining space as you see fit for both NTFS and FreeBSD.

Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format"

2000-03-16 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Mar-17 08:19:36 +1100, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not sure if the behaviour changed, but the other gotcha is that / and swap >must be sequential on the disk (or was it same partition/drive). I don't recall ever seeing this mentioned anywhere. There shouldn't be any

Re: "No /boot/loader" or "Invalid format"

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 08:33 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Trond Endrestøl wrote: >If possible, you should install a small NTFS partition and a small >FreeBSD slice (only ``/'') below the 1023rd cylinder and use the >remaining space as you see fit for both NTFS and FreeBSD. Not sure if the behaviour changed, but the other gotch

Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 12:03 PM 3/16/00 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > Also, I'd like to suggest modifying 'installkernel' to install the >kernel it builds as /kernel, rather than as /${KERNEL} (which usually >means /GENERIC). This bit me the first time, and even though it's harmless >not everyone is saavy enoug