Reverting -current by date.
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 20 22:52:27 UTC 2019
On 2019-Nov-20, at 14:28, Julian Elischer <julian at @freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 11/20/19 1:51 PM, Mark Millard wrote:
>> Bob P. wrote for an aarch64 context:
>>
>>> From time to time it would be handy to revert freebsd-current to
>>> an older, well-behaved revision.
>>>
>>> Is there a mechanism for identifying revision numbers that
>>> will at least compile and boot, by date?
>>>
>>> In my case buildworld seems to be markedly slower than, say,
>>> six months ago. Maybe it's hardware, maybe something else. Is
>>> there a way to pick a revision number to revert to, that's
>>> better than merely guessing?
>> You can explore the history of installable world/kernel materials
>> at places matching the pattern:
>>
>> https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/head/r*/arm64/aarch64/*
>
> I find that https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/ is good enough to allow exploration of revisions. If you add a revision in the given field you will only see revs show up that are older than that.
>
The difference is my suggestion shows examples of builds that completed
and produced world and kernel materials. (But looking around is messier.
At least https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/head/ shows dates too.)
Plus, he might at times be able to avoid building by using the *.txz
files to advantage.
I use https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/ as well, but not to directly find
examples that built or materials that avoid my needing to build. It can
help decide what to explore under
https://artifact.ci.freebsd.org/snapshot/head/ when such material are
relevant.
Unfortunately for Bob P., no suggestion can meet his full criteria. So
he has several suggestions to potentially pick from or to use in
combination.
>>
>> . . .
>
===
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