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Date:      Sat, 8 Mar 2003 19:31:52 -0400 (AST)
From:      The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
To:        Michael Sierchio <kudzu@tenebras.com>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "leak" in softupdates?
Message-ID:  <20030308192912.I58710@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <3E6A7ADB.8020600@tenebras.com>
References:  <20030305204526.T38115@hub.org> <20030307090033.GA61037@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20030307101718.GA1908@kevad.internal> <3E68B9B3.9030509@tenebras.com> <xzpisuvp0vu.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3E68E839.1080009@tenebras.com> <xzpd6l1pj23.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <3E6A7ADB.8020600@tenebras.com>

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On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, Michael Sierchio wrote:

> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
>
> > No, but I know for a fact that there are bugs in the 4.7 security
> > branch that have been fixed in -STABLE.
>
> No argument on that point, but PRERELEASE versions have, in my
> experience, tended to break things that previously worked.  But
> that's just since 2.2.2 or so.

Its happened ... and I get the server rebooted onto kernel.old, put in a
bug report, and try again when I see a commit message go through cvs-all
that appears to pertain to the bug ... or someone provides me with a patch
to try if I'm the only one experiencing it ...

How do you think PRERELEASE gets tested? :)  How do you think that -STABLE
stays relatively stable?

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