FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Now Available

[Warner Losh]

On Dec 26, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Glen Barber wrote:

> 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.

I'm cool with that, especially if it enables official 10.1R releases this summerish...

Warner