On Fri, 5 Dec 2008, Peter Jeremy wrote: Hi, > On 2008-Dec-02 21:00:23 -0500, alexus <alexus_at_gmail.com> wrote: >> as far as I understood HEAD is 8.0-CURRENT > > Yes. > >> is there a way for us to start using it before 8.0 hits -RELEASE > > There are two ways. The first is: > 1) Checkout a copy of the HEAD src tree via your chosen source tracker > (cvs/cvsup/ctm/...) > 2) Follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING to build and install > 3) Test well on a non-production box in as close to your production > environment as possible. Be prepared to feed back problems and > test fixes. > 4) Once you are satisfied that it works for you, place it in production. > > This is basically the same as any other FreeBSD release except that you > should test more rigourously. That's for running HEAD. I would be careful doing this on a production system if one does not know what one is really doing when doing this;) > Your second option is to take the patches from r185435 and apply them > to your 7.x source tree. This may take some massaging (I'm not sure > how much 7 and 8 differ in the affected areas). bz_at_ may be interested > in your experiences. Then test and roll-out as above. There is difference, though not much. Thus just taking the patch won't work but the solution was posted like 2 weeks ago: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jail/2008-November/000615.html Look for where it says "RELENG_7". >> lucky), I somehow was under impression (and i guess i was wrong) that >> it will come out in 7.1, > > It's far too late for any new features in 7.1 but the commit log says > it should be in 7.2. Yupp that's the plan. And the reason it will not be in 7.1-RELEASE is that noone provided the needed bribing money. See http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-jail/2008-November/000619.html (not serious here). It's been just too late. Regards, Bjoern -- Bjoern A. Zeeb The greatest risk is not taking one.Received on Fri Dec 05 2008 - 08:15:08 UTC
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