From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 20:06:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 611CC16A4CE; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:06:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.rulez.sk (DaEmoN.RuLeZ.sK [84.16.32.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F0CD43D5D; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:06:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danger@rulez.sk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.rulez.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 203AF4505B; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:05:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from danger.mcrn.sk (danger.mcrn.sk [84.16.37.254]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.rulez.sk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DA345065; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:05:52 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:04:57 +0100 From: Daniel Gerzo X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1113911942.20050321210457@rulez.sk> To: Ken Smith , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050321030332.GA46390@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <20050321030332.GA46390@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.rulez.sk X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.595 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED, AWL, BAYES_00, PRIORITY_NO_NAME X-Spam-Level: Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 Available X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: DanGer List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:06:01 -0000 Hello Ken, Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:03:32 AM, you wrote: > Announcement > ------------ > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability > of FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 5.4 Release > Cycle. > This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly Snapshots, > for this BETA there are no packages on the CDs at all so the install of > things like perl from the installation media will fail. As with the > Snapshots there is however a full ports tarball it offers to install > and you can use that to install the ports (or just download the packages > you want from the FTP mirror sites). The Release Candidates posted > through the next few weeks will contain the package sets. > Availability > ------------ > The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror > sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html > -ken ok, since there is official anouncement and there are already posted some information to news servers like osnews, i think we should update newvers.sh so people who download BETA1 build wouldn't be confused with -PRERELEASE branch. here is simple diff: --- newvers.sh.orig Mon Mar 21 20:44:45 2005 +++ newvers.sh Mon Mar 21 20:45:31 2005 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ TYPE="FreeBSD" REVISION="5.4" -BRANCH="PRERELEASE" +BRANCH="BETA1" RELEASE="${REVISION}-${BRANCH}" VERSION="${TYPE} ${RELEASE}" -- Best regards +----------==/\/\==----------+ FreeBSD | DanGer | (__) The | DanGer@IRCnet ICQ261701668 | \\\'',) Power | http://danger.homeunix.org | \/ \ ^ To +----------==\/\/==----------+ .\._/_) Serve [ (IF IsStolen(Tagline) THEN Insult(Thief); ]