FreeBSD Release Engg. Team’s Murray Stokely announces the availability of first release candidate for FreeBSD 4.9 (RC1). To-do for 4.9 is here. Also, Robert Watson posted another FreeBSD 5.2 “Open Issues” list, still containing 18 “must resolve issues” before 5.2 will be released.
FreeBSD 4.9-RC1 Available for Testing
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I am not sure whether this is a problem with their new ATAng driver, but during shutdown, 1 disk buffer does not synchronise properly. I need to look around for a solution to this. Any hints ?
when printing
starting standard daemons or similar…
Tooo bad 🙂
No error message and nothing … it just stopped but did not crashed… strange
-A
No error message and nothing … it just stopped but did not crashed… strange
It’s probably hanging on DNS resolution when starting Sendmail. Did you try hitting ^C?
They should have done this instead of having 4.9-PRERELEASE in the stable-supfile. And then, days after that, they withdrew saying 4.9 was not yet ready after all…because of some networking issues. I had to re-cvsup back down to 4.8-RELEASE-p4 coz i was apparently hit by that bug.
Will there be a 4.10 ? or will that just cause massive confuson and not be needed as 5.0 comes about. Sure seams like 4.4 wasn’t very long ago. Go guys
“Will there be a 4.10 ? or will that just cause massive confuson and not be needed as 5.0 comes about. Sure seams like 4.4 wasn’t very long ago.”
FreeBSD 5.0 was actually released this January. I’m not sure if anybody knows if there’s going to be a 4.10 or not however. My guess (though likely going to be proven incorrect) is that there will not be, so long as 5.2 ceases to be the -CURRENT branch.
Yeah 5.1 is nearly released, if it hasn’t been already
I am currently running 5.1 and have been for some time, I have been very happy with it, haven’t had a single crash yet 
that should have been a 5.x I know higher versions then 5.0 have been released.
Will there be a 4.10 ? or will that just cause massive confuson and not be needed as 5.0 comes about. Sure seams like 4.4 wasn’t very long ago. Go guys
From what I have heard via the grape-vine, it would be undesirable to release a 4.10, however, if it proves necessary then you may see it occur, HOWEVER, if FreeBSD 5.3 makes stunning progress over the next 6 months then you should see 4.9 thrown security updates only and FreeBSD 5.3 being the main focus point for development.
http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html
I’m fairly new in FreeBSD and I have some questions about the software updating procedure.
Applications in ports tree can be easily kept up-to-date with portupgrade but is there a similar procedure to check whether any new versions of binary packages are available? In other words, is it possible to update software in FreeBSD by using binary packages only (and not compiling from source packages)?
Also, I haven’t yet been able to figure out whether the ports tree in some specific RELEASE is updated directly from a development branch (STABLE or CURRENT) or does every RELEASE get its own seperately tailored updates? For example, is the ports tree in RELEASE 4.8 updated directly from the STABLE branch?
Applications in ports tree can be easily kept up-to-date with portupgrade but is there a similar procedure to check whether any new versions of binary packages are available? In other words, is it possible to update software in FreeBSD by using binary packages only (and not compiling from source packages)?
Read the portupgrade manual page for more information on this. The -P switch makes it use binary packages, and fall back on ports if it can’t find a package. -PP makes it use only binary packages, with no fallback.
Also, I haven’t yet been able to figure out whether the ports tree in some specific RELEASE is updated directly from a development branch (STABLE or CURRENT) or does every RELEASE get its own seperately tailored updates? For example, is the ports tree in RELEASE 4.8 updated directly from the STABLE branch?
There exists only one ports tree, and it is the same for all the branches. So the answer is no, they do not get seperate updates.
Thanks, this is useful info. Must read the man page. 🙂
There will be a 4.10 (and possibly 11 12 13 .. ) if 5.x isn’t found mature and stable enough. I think it’ll take another while before 4.x disappears, so I’m guessing there’ll probably be a 4.10 and likely a 4.11.