cvsup17.freebsd.org having issues with RELENG_8

[Mark Atkinson]

Scott Lambert wrote:
> I've been using SUPHOST=cvsup17.freebsd.org on my P3 RELENG_8 box.

Yes, I noticed that about a month ago when my buildworld started
failing.   cvsup17 is (seemingly) sponsored by the weather channel
(weather.com).  Wasn't sure to send a heads up too.

> World built successfully, in 6 hours. "make buildkernel" kept blowing up
> in the if_re driver, 28 minutes in.  When I commented out all references
> to "RL_HWREV_8168DP" it broke later in the build.  I blew away /usr/obj
> and /usr/src and tried again, same issues.  I did make delete-old
> delete-old-lib, just in case.  Blew away /usr/[src|obj].  Same issue.
> 
> My other RELENG_8 boxes weren't having this issue, so I was beginning to
> suspect hardware.  Finally I tried a different cvsup server and got a
> lot of changes from 2009.08.03.  Unfortunately, I didn't use my normal
> scripts so didn't get a log of what all it checked out.
> 
> Just a heads-up.
>