7.0-BETA1.5 Available...

David Booth davidb at boothscientific.com
Thu Oct 25 21:19:53 PDT 2007


On Thursday 25 October 2007, Ken Smith wrote:
> Sorry, I had a bit of a false start with 7.0-BETA1.  I've got sets
> of build machines used for the Monthly Snapshots and procedures in
> place to try and minimize the mistakes I could make while doing
> those Snapshots (previously one set for HEAD, one set for
> RELENG_6).  The set of machines I'll be using for the 7.0-RELEASE
> build are the ones that had previously been doing the HEAD
> snapshots and I missed doing one very important adjustment to the
> build routine while doing the BETA1 builds, which resulted in the
> builds being based on HEAD.  I didn't notice during the tests I do
> before uploading it because the build procedure makes most things
> (e.g. uname) say what you told it to build, you need to look harder
> to discover that sort of mistake.  So, 7.0-BETA1 actually should
> have been called something more like 8.0-SURPRISE...  :-(
>
> Sorry for the screw-up.
>

This change seems to break portupgrade.  It complains that it cannot 
parse the output of uname.  I think it is not capable of handling the 
1.5 after the BETA.



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