FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available

[Scott Robbins]

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On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:27:44PM +0100, Yann Golanski wrote:
> Quoth Scott Long on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:18:50 -0600
> > Part of the purpose of moving quickly on to RELENG_6 is so that the 
> > migration work for users from 5.x to 6.x is very small.  6.x is really
> > just an evolutionary step from 5.x, not the life-altering revolutionary 
> > step that 4.x->5.x was.  It should be quite easy to deploy and maintain
> > 5.x and 6.x machines side-by-side and migrate them as the need arises.
> > We don't want people to be stranded on RELENG_5 like they were with
> > RELENG_4.  6.x offers everything of 5.x, but with better performance
> > and (hopefully) better stability.  If you're thinking about evaluating
> > 5.x, give 6.0 a try also.
> 
> Does that mean that a cvsup with "*default tag=RELENG_6" and a rebuilt
> of the world will work smoothly?  Would it work at all?  Is it even
> recommended?

I did that without problem.  There are some issues with libc.5.so and
libc.6.so mostly (I think) having to do with perl.  My only real issue
was Japanese input, fixed by upgrading a few ports.  

Everything else seemed to work without trouble.   




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Scott

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