snasphots schedule

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Sat Sep 22 12:55:22 PDT 2012


Snapshots were breaking because of a change to building git.  Sascha
Wildner fixed it yesterday:

http://lists.dragonflybsd.org/pipermail/commits/2012-September/000103.html

So we should have new ones soon.  Unless there's something just added
that you need in order to boot, you can always use an older snapshot
and then upgrade via git to HEAD.  That is a bit more time-consuming,
though.

On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Carsten Mattner
<carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Sven Gaerner <sgaerner at gmx.net> wrote:
>> On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 01:34:36PM +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote:
>>> Are the snapshots created automatically or is it a manual process?
>>> The latest are from 2012-09-16.
>>
>> The snapshots are generated by a daily cron job that is by default run
>> at 3:01. For a workstations that is not running 24/7 it would be a good
>> solution to move this to another time. Look into /etc/crontab for the
>> calls and adjust them if necessary.
>>
>> The weekly and monthly jobs are also run around that time. You might
>> want to adjust them too.
>
> Sorry I mean the Dragonfly snapshot releases on mirror-master.



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