FYI - RELENG_6 branch has been created.

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Tue Jul 19 11:51:05 GMT 2005


On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 10:04:36PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Ken Smith wrote:
> 
> >Just a quick note to say that as part of the FreeBSD-6.0 Release Cycle 
> >the RELENG_6 branch tag has just been created in the CVS repository. 
> >In preparation for the release some places in the tree now say that this 
> >branch is -STABLE but there is still work to do before this branch will 
> >be ready for release.  People who are not in a position to help work out 
> >the remaining bugs in the RELENG_6 branch as we work towards the 
> >FreeBSD-6.0 Release should definitely continue using RELENG_5_4 or 
> >RELENG_5 as appropriate.
> 
> As a further FYI, a variety of debugging features are still enabled by 
> default in RELENG_6, including INVARINTS, WITNESS, and user space malloc 
> debugging.  These will remain enabled through the first snapshot from the 
> release candidate series in order to assist in debugging problems. 
> However, anyone running RELENG_6 until that time should be aware that 
> these debugging features result in a loss of 1/2 or more performance for 
> many common workloads.  Depending on workload and hardware, this might or 
> might not present a problem for your environment -- the features are 
> invaluable in diagnosing problems, however, so if it's possible to leave 
> them on in testing, that would be useful.  Obviously, tesing without them 
> is also desired, as they significantly perturb timing, but the first 
> question you'll get is "can you reproduce them with debugging features 
> enabled?" :-).

It's a trivial thing, I know, but is there any chance of someone
committing the following to RELENG_6?

lack-of-gravitas:/usr/src:% diff -u share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile{.orig,}
--- share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile.orig    Tue Jul 19 12:40:25 2005
+++ share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile Tue Jul 19 12:41:40 2005
@@ -68,9 +68,10 @@
 *default host=CHANGE_THIS.FreeBSD.org
 *default base=/var/db
 *default prefix=/usr
-# The following line is for 5-stable.  If you want 4-stable, 3-stable, or
-#  2.2-stable, change to "RELENG_4", "RELENG_3", or "RELENG_2_2" respectively.
-*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
+# The following line is for 6-stable.  If you want 5-stable, 4-stable,
+# 3-stable, or 2.2-stable, change to "RELENG_5", "RELENG_4",
+# "RELENG_3", or "RELENG_2_2" respectively.
+*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
 *default delete use-rel-suffix
 
 # If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, try

      Cheers,

      Matthew

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