No 8.0-BETA3 for ia64 & powerpc

[Marcel Moolenaar-4]

All,

I'm on vacation for the next 10 days and that's right at the time
of BETA3 unfortunately. So there will be no BETA3 for ia64 and
powerpc (unless someone steps up).

Keep the testing going and keep reporting problems. They will all
be addressed in time for 8.0-RC1!!!

Cheers,

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[Andreas Tobler-5]

Hi Marcel,

Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> I'm on vacation for the next 10 days and that's right at the time
> of BETA3 unfortunately. So there will be no BETA3 for ia64 and
> powerpc (unless someone steps up).
>
> Keep the testing going and keep reporting problems. They will all
> be addressed in time for 8.0-RC1!!!

Is it sufficent to build (kernel & world) and test -CURRENT svn on powerpc?

I did not have the time to test a real BETAx image on powerpc so far, on
i386 yes.
But if there is a real demand to test a BETA image on ppc I can try to
find another disk/machine to test on.

Regards,
Andreas
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[Marcel Moolenaar-4]

On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote:

> Hi Marcel,
>
> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
>> I'm on vacation for the next 10 days and that's right at the time
>> of BETA3 unfortunately. So there will be no BETA3 for ia64 and
>> powerpc (unless someone steps up).
>> Keep the testing going and keep reporting problems. They will all
>> be addressed in time for 8.0-RC1!!!
>
> Is it sufficent to build (kernel & world) and test -CURRENT svn on  
> powerpc?

Yes, definitely. Just make sure to run...
        # make delete-old
        # make delete-old-libs
        # mergemaster -U

...after the install. That should cleanup some old stuff
that may prevent good testing.

BTW: A lot of libraries got their version bumped, so all
ports/packages need to be rebuilt.

FYI,

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[Andreas Tobler-5]

Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote:
>
>> Hi Marcel,
>>
>> Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>
>>> I'm on vacation for the next 10 days and that's right at the time
>>> of BETA3 unfortunately. So there will be no BETA3 for ia64 and
>>> powerpc (unless someone steps up).
>>> Keep the testing going and keep reporting problems. They will all
>>> be addressed in time for 8.0-RC1!!!
>> Is it sufficent to build (kernel & world) and test -CURRENT svn on  
>> powerpc?
>
> Yes, definitely. Just make sure to run...
> # make delete-old
> # make delete-old-libs
> # mergemaster -U
>
> ...after the install. That should cleanup some old stuff
> that may prevent good testing.
> BTW: A lot of libraries got their version bumped, so all
> ports/packages need to be rebuilt.

And here I shot myself in the toe.

I did a 'portupgrade -af' afterwards and gtk link stage complained about
  not being able to link libcairo against libz.so.4, which I deleted
with  'make delete-old-libs'. This happened on i386 and also on powerpc.
I helped myself with a temporary sym link.

Well, I might learn to play with the different options from portupgrade.
But doing a 'portupgrade -af' before 'make delete-old-libs' should also
have helped here, right?

Thanks,
Andreas

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[Marcel Moolenaar-4]

On Aug 2, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote:

>> Yes, definitely. Just make sure to run...
>> # make delete-old
>> # make delete-old-libs
>> # mergemaster -U
>> ...after the install. That should cleanup some old stuff
>> that may prevent good testing.
>> BTW: A lot of libraries got their version bumped, so all
>> ports/packages need to be rebuilt.
>
> But doing a 'portupgrade -af' before 'make delete-old-libs' should  
> also have helped here, right?

Ignoring possible corner case... Yes.

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[Anton Shterenlikht]

On Sun, Aug 02, 2009 at 07:08:58PM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>
> On Aug 2, 2009, at 1:09 PM, Andreas Tobler wrote:
>
> >>Yes, definitely. Just make sure to run...
> >> # make delete-old
> >> # make delete-old-libs
> >> # mergemaster -U
> >>...after the install. That should cleanup some old stuff
> >>that may prevent good testing.

shoudn't this be documented, e.g. in section 24.7, Rebuilding "world", of
the FBSD handbook?

I wasn't aware of these make targets or of "-U" option. I don't think
it's mentioned in the handbook. Perhaps I could've avoided some
problems with system updates..

many thanks

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[Marcel Moolenaar-4]

On Jul 31, 2009, at 11:10 AM, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> I'm on vacation for the next 10 days and that's right at the time
> of BETA3 unfortunately. So there will be no BETA3 for ia64 and
> powerpc (unless someone steps up).

8.0-BETA3 got delayed until after my vacation, so I made them.
Look for them on your favorite mirror!

FYI,

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