Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.1 release for Mac68k softfloat
To: Bruce O'Neel <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
From: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/29/2005 12:24:07
Thanks, Bruce. I'll just stick with 2.1-RC6 on the machines that are
already installed then. I'll put 2.1 on new installations.
Regards,
William
> From: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:20:04 +0000
> To: William Duke <wduke@cogeco.ca>
> Cc: port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
> Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.1 release for Mac68k softfloat
>
> Hi,
>
> My incomplete understanding of the idea is that one has different RCn
> releases until everyone is happy, and then except for CVS tags,
> displayed version numbers and such, it becomes the release.
>
> My feeling would be that unless you have some overriding desire to
> run 2.1 vs 2.1RC6, I'd just stick with 2.1RC6. One could run
> a cvs diff command as well if you wanted to check for sure.
>
> cheers
>
> bruce
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 08:17:51PM -0400, William Duke wrote:
>> Bruce,
>>
>> I just finished doing a complete install of 2.1_RC6 the other day. I'm
>> wondering if there are any changes between 2.1_RC6 and 2.1 that would
>> warrant installation of the 2.1 builds?
>>
>> Basically, is there any difference between 2.1_RC6 and 2.1 other than the
>> dropping of the "_RC6" suffix from the name? I'm not going to bother
>> re-installing if 2.1_RC6 and 2.1 are the same animal with a just slightly
>> changed name.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>> From: "Bruce O'Neel" <edoneel@sdf.lonestar.org>
>>> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 19:32:58 +0000
>>> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.org
>>> Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.1 release for Mac68k softfloat
>>>
>>> Yep, it works. I'll have to wait until monday to try it on the system which
>>> failed today.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> bruce
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 06:49:25PM +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On a different system, and booting the install kernel off of
>>>> an appletalk server, it seems to be working.
>>>>
>>>> We'll know in an hour or so.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> cheers
>>>>
>>>> bruce
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 11:23:39AM +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
>>>>> Hmm,
>>>>>
>>>>> A quick test has the install kernel crashing on boot. I'll have to
>>>>> play more this weekend since work calls.
>>>>>
>>>>> cheers
>>>>>
>>>>> bruce
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 10:01:30AM +0000, Bruce O'Neel wrote:
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, there hasn't been an official announcment yet, beyond the CVS logs
>>>>>> of "welcome to NetBSD 2.1", but netbsd 2.1 for Mac68k softfloat is at:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ftp://ftp.ziaspace.com/pub/NetBSD/m68k/NetBSD-2.1-mac68ksoftfloat/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I build this from a cvs checkout of the tag netbsd-2-1-release or so,
>>>>>> Normally I would have built from the source that lives somewhere like
>>>>>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.1/ but I already had CVS
>>>>>> version sitting around this time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've not tested this yet, but, I'll try today.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW, this is the last version where a patch is necessary.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> cheers
>>>>>>
>>>>>> bruce
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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