release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Volker
Hi! Reading some of the latest blog entries today, I've seen there has been some (newbie) user frustration with the latest X.org upgrade (mostly by not reading docs or not understanding the ports system at all). flz@ and des@ had a lot of trouble with some guys. Currently, if a new user is trying

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 5/29/07, Volker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! While reading about all that latest trouble, I think it might not be a bad idea to have a (quick) release cycle and release something like 6.2.1-RELEASE (6.3 is still TBA). I'm considering the latest X.org upgrade being a major upgrade which wo

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:45:15AM +0200, Volker wrote: > Hi! > > Reading some of the latest blog entries today, I've seen there has > been some (newbie) user frustration with the latest X.org upgrade > (mostly by not reading docs or not understanding the ports system at > all). flz@ and des@ had

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-29 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "Colin Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Original Message - From: "Colin Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tar -xvzf test.tar.gz tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev' tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino' tar: Ignorin

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> Alas I still get a BTX halted after replacing loader with one from > that URL :( > int=000d err= efl=00030002 eip=2aca > eax=0900 ebx=55aa ecx= edx=0180 > esi= edi= ebp=03f0 esp=03da > cs=f000 ds=9e02 es=1400fs= gs=00

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread LI Xin
Hi, Erik, Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:45:15AM +0200, Volker wrote: [...] >> >> I know there's a release cycle for 7-CURRENT planned next June but >> IMHO it can be delayed for some weeks. >> >> What does the core and releng team think? It might do good. > > A quick release c

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2007-May-29 12:29:29 +0200, Erik Trulsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >A quick release cycle for a release from -STABLE sounds like a bad idea. >There have been enough new things that have gone into the 6-STABLE branch >that a full release cycle seems warranted. Agreed. 6.3-RELEASE would nomina

Re: network performance 6.1 stable vs 4.9

2007-05-29 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 25 May 2007, Stephen Clark wrote: We have a network appliance that is currently based on 4.9. We are in the process of releasing a new version based on 6.1 stable. In our testing using nttcp thru the appliance we see insignifant difference in thruput between the 2 versions in a contro

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, LI Xin wrote: > Hi, Erik, > > Erik Trulsson wrote: >> On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:45:15AM +0200, Volker wrote: > [...] >>> I know there's a release cycle for 7-CURRENT planned next June but >>> IMHO it can be delayed for some weeks. >>> >>> What does the core and releng t

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
Bruce A. Mah wrote: > We've done point releases in the past but only in cases where there were > severe problems and/or regressions with released versions. Look at the > announcements and release notes for 4.6.2-RELEASE and > 5.2.1-RELEASE...these were the two most recent instances where we did >

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Colin Percival wrote: > Bruce A. Mah wrote: >> We've done point releases in the past but only in cases where there were >> severe problems and/or regressions with released versions. Look at the >> announcements and release notes for 4.6.2-RELEASE and >> 5.2.1-RELEASE...t

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 01:18:51PM +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > Voker, I think with ports freeze still the case, they can't release a > new version before sorting all Xorg 7.2 issues IMHO. The freeze has been lifted. OTOH things are still settling down. mcl ___

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:17:57PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > Agreed. 6.3-RELEASE would nominally be due around July but the lack > of any schedule on http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ suggests that it will > be later than that. The plans to start the 7.0-RELEASE cycle will also > impact this. At

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Volker
On 05/29/07 17:26, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > And that's just the src/ part. The original poster was mostly concerned > about the X.org upgrade, which as we all know lives in the ports/ tree. > If we were to do a "point release" we'd basically require a complete > port freeze and package build run. I

Packet Loss w/bge & BCM5703 on Dell PE2650

2007-05-29 Thread Vinny Abello
Hello all, I've isolated a problem which appears to be a bug causing packet loss with FreeBSD 6.0 and later on the Dell PowerEdge 2650 servers and the integrated Broadcom BCM5703 NICs. I thought it was the server at first but I did a clean install of FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on another 2650 and

6.2: maillog grows, newsyslog's misbehaving ?

2007-05-29 Thread Andreas Klemm
Hi, discovered that the maillog file on my freebsd Desktop grows and grows (now at 50MB). According to the newsyslog.conf file it should be trimmed every night at midnight. /var/log/maillog640 7 *@T00 JC Is it a prerequisite, that the system then runs 24x7 so t

vnode_pager_putpages errors on 6.2

2007-05-29 Thread steve
Howdy! I had this issue on 4.x, which is basically, I have machines that do cgi stuff for customers, and there is a local md device that is used as a tmp. When it fills the machine logs errors vnode_pager_putpages I/O error 28.. and the machine is unresponsive and needs to be po

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors on 6.2

2007-05-29 Thread Kip Macy
On 5/29/07, steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy! I had this issue on 4.x, which is basically, I have machines that do cgi stuff for customers, and there is a local md device that is used as a tmp. When it fills the machine logs errors vnode_pager_putpages I/O error 28.. and

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Scott Long
Colin Percival wrote: Bruce A. Mah wrote: We've done point releases in the past but only in cases where there were severe problems and/or regressions with released versions. Look at the announcements and release notes for 4.6.2-RELEASE and 5.2.1-RELEASE...these were the two most recent instance

Re: release cycle

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
Scott Long wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> I point releases have been obsoleted by errata notices. In the past when >> X.Y.Z-RELEASE has happened, it has been because of critical bugs in the >> X.Y-RELEASE which there wasn't any other mechanism to fix. Now that we >> have errata noticed and Fre

Re: 6.2: maillog grows, newsyslog's misbehaving ?

2007-05-29 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:08 PM +0200 5/28/07, Andreas Klemm wrote: Hi, discovered that the maillog file on my freebsd Desktop grows and grows (now at 50MB). According to the newsyslog.conf file it should be trimmed every night at midnight. /var/log/maillog640 7 *@T00 JC Is it a

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-29 Thread Martin Schütte
Steven Hartland schrieb: > From our side we'll have to > switch to using gnutar until this issue is resolved as we need to ensure > compatibility. gnutar is available as a package. -- Martin ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-29 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Steven Hartland wrote this message on Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:46 +0100: > - Original Message - > From: "Colin Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>- Original Message - From: "Colin Percival" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > tar -xvzf test.tar.gz > tar: Ignoring unknown extended header ke

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-29 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: "John-Mark Gurney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Is the file incorrect when extracted? or is this a mater of gtar throwing an error because of the tar format, and an option to bsdtar could be provided to change the output tar format? The file is correct when extracted

Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors on 6.2

2007-05-29 Thread LI Xin
Hi, Steve, steve wrote: [...] > http://atm.tut.fi/list-archive/freebsd-stable/msg19288.html > > that I appled to 4.x and it solved the problem. > > Now that I have upgraded to 6.2, the problem has > recurred, but the previous patch is no longer valid. Is > there something wrong with

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-29 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Steven Hartland wrote this message on Wed, May 30, 2007 at 02:08 +0100: > - Original Message - > From: "John-Mark Gurney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Is the file incorrect when extracted? or is this a mater of gtar throwing > >an error because of the tar format, and an option to bsdtar could b

Re: bug in BSD tar?

2007-05-29 Thread Colin Percival
Steven Hartland wrote: > - Original Message - From: "John-Mark Gurney" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Is the file incorrect when extracted? or is this a mater of gtar >> throwing >> an error because of the tar format, and an option to bsdtar could be >> provided >> to change the output tar forma