Need to build some systems this week. Snapshots?

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:40:51AM +0200, Marton Kenyeres wrote:
> On Thursday 28 August 2003 08.38, Brett Glass wrote:
> > 1I need to build up some systems this week, but it appears that neither the
> > US "releng4" server nor the Japanese snapshot server has snapshots of
> > -STABLE with all of the most recently reported glitches fixed. (The
> > Japanese server seems to be indicating, via log messages in its FTP
> > directories, that it has run out of disk space for builds.) I can't get
> > through to
> > daemon.jp.freebsd.org, which normally holds builds of the latest release
> > with security patches, at all.
> >
> > FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE isn't due out until the end of next month. What's the
> > best way to install a relatively stable build of FreeBSD, with all known
> > security issues fixed, in the interim? I'd very much NOT like to do a CVS
> > update and rebuild the world on these machines, as hard drive space and
> > time available for installation will be limited.
> >
> 
> Why don't you do a cvs update and a `make release' on one of the machines
> and do a network install on the others? Or do a `make -DMAKE_ISOS release' if 
> you prefer CDs as your install media.
> 
> I would choose some pre-PAE RELENG_4, as it seems there are still some 
> stability issues and IIRC I saw some posts about the MFSROOT floppy 
> overflowing. (Maybe that's what the snapshot server is complaining about?)
> 
Not mfsroot.flp, but kern.flp.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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