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Call for Testers: Ports and Packages

Contributed by robert on from the test-or-die dept.

In order to make the coming 3.9 release the best yet, porters are calling for users to test the latest snapshot packages and the ports tree itself.
Make sure you report every problem you encounter.

Thank you.

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  1. By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on

    I've only been using the 3.9-beta snap for a few days, but the ports seem a lot more stable. I guess a lot of off-by-ones exposed by the 3.8 changes have been found and fixed.

  2. By Venture37 (217.22.88.124) venture37 # hotmail com on www.geeklan.co.uk

    Downloading.......

  3. By Anonymous Coward (68.6.193.220) on

    Are there any ports and packages that they are more or less interested in having checked, or is this just "ports and packages in general"?

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    1. By Mathieu Sauve-Frankel (216.19.177.194) msf@openbsd.org on http://www.openbsd.org

      Please focus on testing as many binary packages from snapshots as possible. Reports on breakage in the ports tree at this time of the release cycle are usually redundant as bulk builds are being performed frequently across all arches.

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (81.57.42.108) on

        Up until when will that sort of testing be usefull ?
        I mean, can this wait until the next week-end or will the tree be frozen very soon ?

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        1. By Anonymous Coward (82.155.155.167) on

          shut up and test

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          1. By shakazulu (89.49.93.10) on

            this one think's he is an openbsd original

  4. By squeege (192.139.71.69) on

    After upgrading to the 3.9 snapshot [2006-02-05] my D-Link DWL-G650 (rev. B1 )wireless PC card is no longer detected as an AR5212 chipset, but AR5213... hopefully this means that it will start working now! (Keeping fingers crossed)

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    1. By squeege (69.28.228.218) on

      The wireless NIC isn't working any better for me - but all the snapshot packages I've installed so far are working great.

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      1. By Tom Van Looy (217.136.254.227) on

        Is it working at all? Because I have the same card and I got it working, maybe I can help ...

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        1. By squeege (216.252.80.188) adg [at] squeege [dot] ca on

          @Tom Van Looy: I would greatly appreciate any help you could provide with this... Please email me at your convenience: adg [at] squeege [dot] ca

      2. By Anonymous Coward (213.155.194.96) on

        It seems like Reyk Floeter has lost interest or maybe he's only busy

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        1. By Anonymous Coward (66.39.191.42) on

          The problem is that the HAL is not fully reverse-engineered and the amount of time it would take to fix the current problems is far beyond what anyone wants to spend.

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  5. By Anonymous Coward (69.207.29.191) on

    permit me for being uneducated, but i've trolled the ftp sites and cannot seem to find the dated snapshot. i'm a happy openbsd user, but by no means someone who knows the internals very well, and would still like to help out squashing any bugs. could someone post a url/path to the snapshot file?

    thanks

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on

      ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapahots/`machine`/

      and

      ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapahots/packages/`arch -s`/

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      1. By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on

        Doh !

        s/snapahots/snapshots/

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        1. By thomasw.xhrl (142.22.16.56) on

          hello, any idea when the cd pre-ordering for 3.9 will be setup on the OpenBSD site? thanks, just getting my shopping list ready :)

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          1. By Anonymous Coward (68.124.63.111) on

            Usually a month before release; visit the mailing list archives.

  6. By James (82.71.118.57) on

    Its a pity it doesn't say /how/ or /where/ to report broken ports. Should one assume just straight back to the list? (RRDtool requiring X11 in the snapshots is my current gripe)

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (82.92.121.72) on

      You should e-mail the maintainer and/or ports@.

    2. By Anonymous Coward (66.11.66.41) on

      RRDtool requiring X isn't considered a bug. They won't accept a port of fontconfig 2 because its included with X. So instead of just being able to install a fontconfig pkg, you have to install X.

  7. By Anonymous Coward (65.34.16.170) on

    snapshot a week ago worked fine, but because src and ports for current are still diverging, frequently the make build && make install will fail So when you ask to test, you mean what you said, test the snapshot only not a build off src/ports

  8. By Anonymous Coward (217.146.126.74) on

    Only one snapshot package build since 2nd Jan '06 and that was three weeks ago. Anyone know when the next build will get done?

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    1. By Anonymous Coward (128.171.90.200) on

      Which mirror are you looking at ?

    2. By Marc Espie (213.41.185.88) espie@openbsd.org on

      Some of you seem to think it is crucial to test a very very recent snapshot. Not so. What we need is for you to test stuff you use, and report new issues, in as many useful details as you can. In case you don't realize it, there are enough ports that not everything changes rapidly. Some ports haven't seen any change in months. And if you stumble onto a bug, it's likely to still be there.

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