FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Now Available

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 08:20:16PM +0000, Andrew Turner wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 14:55:12 -0500
> Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 07:48:30PM +0000, Andrew Turner wrote:
> > > On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:25:09 -0800
> > > Tim Kientzle <kientzle at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Dec 26, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > The third RC build of the 10.0-RELEASE release cycle is now
> > > > > available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, ia64, powerpc,
> > > > > powerpc64 and sparc64 architectures.
> > > > 
> > > > What do we need to include some ARM images?
> > > > 
> > > > At a minimum, I would love to get an official RC3 build for RPi.
> > > 
> > > I would suggest we could build a tarball of armv6 userland and an
> > > RPi image to dd to an SD card.
> > > 
> > > Building the former should be straight forward.
> > > 
> > > For the latter, assuming the release target is unable to build the
> > > required U-Boot binary, we could use crochet. I'm not sure if we can
> > > use a tarball as the input for this to guarantee both are the same.
> > > 
> > 
> > The problem with using crochet is that it requires git on the build
> > machine, which just adds to the minimum dependencies needed, both for
> > crochet itself, and (last I was aware) an external uboot tree.
> 
> Github allows you to use svn to checkout a git repo with svn. There is
> an option under the clone url to set it to subversion.
> 
> U-Boot should just be a tarball, if it is a git repo we would need to
> make it a tarball for the release to supply the source as it is GPL.
> 
> > Maybe it is just more sensible to take what crochet is doing, and make
> > that into a release target.
> 
> Yes, but I assume this is not feasible for 10.0.
> 

It depends on how the test builds go, which I am working on right now.
They may not be considered "official", since we're at the end of the
release cycle.  But if I can get something working, I'll be happy to
hand-roll -RELEASE builds.

Glen

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