From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: Russ Cox Cc: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] big pull Message-ID: <20030623124903.Q2250@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <7c507c45132a212a9ae4444aa4ba2f53@plan9.bell-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <7c507c45132a212a9ae4444aa4ba2f53@plan9.bell-labs.com>; from Russ Cox on Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:35:14AM -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 12:49:04 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: d6f415d2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:35:14AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > > The next pull will be a big one. > Due to various changes in the C library, > basically all the system binaries changed, > so it seemed like a good time to sync up. > Russ, will you release a new ISO image at the same time, please? With a release identifier in it? I'm a little lost here with the number of versions that I have managed to accumulate, and a final issue would have a very salutary effect. My biggest problem, sadly, is that I don't seem to be able to bring the base system up to speed. After a pull update from a CD-ROM image I generated myself, a "diff -r" between the source and destination yields quite a lot of discrepancies :-( If one can't be sure of having a consistent system (which could be caused, of course by a number of anomalies, for example, I had an empty /sys/src/9/pc/apic.c on the Fossil server :-( then things get a bit rough. I'm not sure how one goes about sanity checking the system, but it would be good if replica had a tool to do something of a check. Hm, maybe it does, but not explicitly. I'm a lazy person and fail to see things that are not spelled out to me. ++L PS: And thanks to you and all the team contributors for your efforts and all the benefit you have bestowed on us. To paraphrase a trite cinema character: "We're not worthy!" PPS: I meant to ask you this a while back, but keep treating it as not important enough to warrant a separate mail message: where is the U9FS source that has been released separately? Is a link to it from the Plan 9 pages not perhaps warranted?