FreeBSD 7.2-RC1 Available

[Erik Trulsson]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:15:03PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> 
> The first of two planned Release Candidates for the FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE
> cycle is now available.  Testing of some of the recent work would be
> particularly appreciated.  This includes:
> 
> 	- bce(4) updated (there is a report that lagg(4) does
> 	  not work after the update, fixing that may need to be
> 	  done as an Errata Notice after the release)
> 	- testing of the threading libraries
> 	- amr(4) should be fixed
> 
> A fix for the "vm_page_insert: page already inserted" panics has been
> committed to RELENG_7_1 this morning so it missed the 7.2-RC1 builds.
> If you wind up being hit by that you can try a normal source based
> update to the current state of RELENG_7_1 and that problem should go
> away.

I assume that you mean 'RELENG_7_2' rather than 'RELENG_7_1' in the above
paragraph? (As well as further down.)


> 
> We have slipped by two days at this point but otherwise are on track
> with the target release schedule which is here:
> 
>   http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/schedule.html
> 
> We continue to watch for problems both on the mailing lists and in Gnats
> but at this point we know of nothing we consider show-stopper calibre.
> Unless something that bad does surface as a result of 7.2-RC1 testing we
> should be sticking to the schedule.
> 
> The ISO images and FTP install trees are available on the FreeBSD Mirror
> sites. Using the primary site as an example:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/${arch}/ISO-IMAGES/7.2/
> 
> where ${arch} is one of amd64 i386, ia64, pc98, or sparc64.  The
> builds for powerpc are still in progress, it should become available
> in a day or two.
> 
> Checksums for the ISO images are at the bottom of this message.  The
> amd64 and i386 sets include a *preliminary* set of packages.
> 
> If you would like to do a source-based update to 7.2-RC1 from an
> already installed machine you can update your tree to RELENG_7_1 using
> normal cvsup/csup methods.
> 
> The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64
> systems running earlier FreeBSD releases.  Systems running 7.0-RELEASE,
> 7.1-RELEASE, or 7.2-BETA1 can upgrade as follows:
>   
> # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2-RC1
> 
> During this process, FreeBSD Update may ask the user to help by merging
> some configuration files or by confirming that the automatically performed
> merging was done correctly.
>   
> # freebsd-update install
> 
> The system must be rebooted with the newly installed kernel before continuing.
> # shutdown -r now
>    
> After rebooting, freebsd-update needs to be run again to install the new
> userland components, and the system needs to be rebooted again:
> 
> # freebsd-update install
> # shutdown -r now
> 
> Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 6.x) can also use freebsd-update to
> upgrade to FreeBSD 7.2-RC1, but will be prompted to rebuild all third-party
> applications (e.g., anything installed from the ports tree) after the second
> invocation of "freebsd-update install", in order to handle differences in the
> system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x.
> 




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Erik Trulsson
ertr1013 at student.uu.se