Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-03-01 Thread Ken Smith
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 02:05 -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Not to mention, the block size specified doesn't jibe with what's in the > FreeBSD Handbook (which uses bs=64k): > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html > > Other users have pointed this out to me o

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-03-01 Thread Ken Smith
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 10:26 +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:26:23 -0500, > Ken Smith a écrit : > > Hello, > > > 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement > > messages are available here: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.h

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-03-01 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 10:26:07AM +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:26:23 -0500, > Ken Smith a écrit : > > Hello, > > > 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement > > messages are available here: > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/ann

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-03-01 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:26:23 -0500, Ken Smith a écrit : Hello, > 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement > messages are available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html There is a small typo in the name of the usb image: « memstick This c

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-26 Thread Doug Barton
When I was looking at this problem myself recently it occurred to me that one way to handle it would be to have the freebsd-update code build and populate the temproot directory that mergemaster uses and then offer the user the option to use that alternative. The process could use something lik

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-26 Thread Jason Helfman
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:01:11PM -0500, John Baldwin thus spake: On Friday, February 25, 2011 1:00:19 pm jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:42:25PM +0100, Marco van Tol wrote: >> >> Read up on the mergemaster manual for options "-F" and "-i" :-) > > freebsd-update does not

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-26 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 03:01:11PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: ... > No, release branches long pre-date freebsd-update. However, before we > switched to svn for source, new branches did not bump all the $FreeBSD$ tags. > > That is a side effect of the way that the SVN -> CVS exporter works (and

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-25 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, February 25, 2011 1:00:19 pm jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:42:25PM +0100, Marco van Tol wrote: > >> > >> Read up on the mergemaster manual for options "-F" and "-i" :-) > > > > freebsd-update does not use mergemaster, though probably it should. > > My underst

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-25 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:00:19AM -0800, jhelf...@e-e.com wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:42:25PM +0100, Marco van Tol wrote: > >> > >> Read up on the mergemaster manual for options "-F" and "-i" :-) > > > > freebsd-update does not use mergemaster, though probably it should. > > My under

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-25 Thread jhelfman
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:42:25PM +0100, Marco van Tol wrote: >> >> Read up on the mergemaster manual for options "-F" and "-i" :-) > > freebsd-update does not use mergemaster, though probably it should. My understanding is that freebsd-update was introduced prior to releases being branched

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-25 Thread Clifton Royston
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:42:25PM +0100, Marco van Tol wrote: > > Read up on the mergemaster manual for options "-F" and "-i" :-) freebsd-update does not use mergemaster, though probably it should. We had this discussion a month or two ago. Currently there is no way around verifying the ch

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-25 Thread Marco van Tol
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 02:47:44PM +0100, Marek 'Buki' Kozlovský wrote: > [snip] > > > I had this problem before and then in my frustration just commented out > > > this line in freebsd-update.conf: > > > > > > #MergeChanges /etc/ /var/named/etc/ /boot/device.hints > > > > > > I got lucky that

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-25 Thread Marek 'Buki' Kozlovský
[snip] > > I had this problem before and then in my frustration just commented out > > this line in freebsd-update.conf: > > > > #MergeChanges /etc/ /var/named/etc/ /boot/device.hints > > > > I got lucky that time, but is this really safe? What if, say, a new > > daemon has been installed in th

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-25 Thread Marco van Tol
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:56:46AM +0100, Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote: > Ken Smith, 2011-02-24 22:26 (+0100): > > > Just a quick note for those of you who are not subscribed to the > > freebsd-announce mail list... > > > > 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement >

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Ken Smith, 2011-02-24 22:26 (+0100): > Just a quick note for those of you who are not subscribed to the > freebsd-announce mail list... > > 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement > messages are available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html >

Re: 8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-24 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Ken Smith on Thursday, 24 February 2011: > Just a quick note for those of you who are not subscribed to the > freebsd-announce mail list... > > 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement > messages are available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/annou

8.2/7.4-RELEASEs Announced...

2011-02-24 Thread Ken Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick note for those of you who are not subscribed to the freebsd-announce mail list... 8.2-RELEASE and 7.4-RELEASE have been announced. The announcement messages are available here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.2R/announce.html htt