Re: dell 2950/ FreeBSD 8.0-RC2

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 11:01:20PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Puzzled ... I saw a mail ref to RC2 last night & checked ftp on .de
> & USA to download, but saw just saw RC1, now a night later I still
> see at Tue Oct 27 22:56:07 CET 2009 just ftp.freebsd.org Remote
> directory: /pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0 8.0-RC1-i386-*
> I guess your running from ?what? self compiled, & it hasnt hit ftp
> repo. yet.  (I recall CVS too doesnt get those RC tags, that' just
> subversion I assume)

Yes, RC2 hit svs/cvs a few days ago:
Date: Sun Oct 25 00:28:01 2009
New Revision: 198456
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198456
Log:
  Prepare for 8.0-RC2 builds.

So, if you build it yourself you can have what is likely to be RC2 now
too.

I'm running (on this machine):

FreeBSD swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk 8.0-RC2 FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 #0: Tue Oct 27 18:14:56 GMT 2009     root_at_swelter.hanley.stade.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

The last time I rsync'd i386 and amd65 stable packages had recently been updated.
[aw1_at_swelter /home/ftp/pub/FreeBSD/ports]$ ls -l */*-stable/INDEX
-rw-rw-r--  1 500  450  18068940 21 Oct 17:32 amd64/packages-8-stable/INDEX
-rw-rw-r--  1 500  450  18450778 23 Oct 18:36 i386/packages-8-stable/INDEX

I'd imagine that the RC2 announcement isn't far off.

8.0 is looking pretty good, and the ports / packages I use are in fair
shape too.

I am seriously considering switching my works machines to 8-stable once
8.0-release is out.

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