Status Update

As people know we're working towards the release and I thought an update might be useful.

There was a mixup about dates and the rc1 build happened a week early. The first real rc2 was this Tuesday. We merged a variety of fixes into it and it did build out. Unfortunately there were some late kernel patches that came in after it, we then also found the toolchains in the ADT/SDK were basically DoA. We decided to skip QA on rc2 and move to rc3 immediately.

The rc3 build did throw bogus QA warnings on the build due to dmesg 'errors' after the kernel change. We've also found that whilst the SDK is ok, ADT is still broken :(. We are putting that one through QA though.

We've also found that builds on xfs with 64 bit inodes are corrupting permissions in pseudo (e.g. /usr/bin/python loses its execute bits). We have a fix for that in pseudo master and have confirmed it fixes things on the xfs build machine. This may explain some of the pseudo permissions issues people have intermittently reported.

So we will run an rc4 build early next week and we're looking only to take a small number of fixes into it, hopefully that one can become the release and we can be done before ELC-E.

Cheers,

Richard