From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Oct 18 07:42:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20611 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 07:42:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA20596 for ; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 07:42:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id KAA01369 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:38:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA06597 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:37:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199810181437.KAA06597@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: Don't bet on 3.0 release To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:37:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Greg Lehey recently said: > On Sunday, 18 October 1998 at 0:18:51 +0100, Karl Pielorz wrote: > > Paul Stewart wrote: > >> We just upgraded our main commerical web server to 3.0-RELEASE > >> and everything works like a dream except I can't compile > >> apache-ssl for our secure server... as it's compiling, I get > >> the following from the SSLeahy port... > > Not wanting to start fireworks, but if it's your _main_ > > commercial / production box you probably shouln't have done > > that... If you look through the -current mailing list you would > > have seen why... A lot of the ports, and other software have > > problems with ELF at the moment... > To be fair, 3.0 has now been released, and you can't expect that > everybody who's now thinking of installing to have been reading > -current all this time. Well there was plenty of notice/warning about 3.0 being the first cut and was to be for experimentors and early adopters. I got a notice on my subscription about 2 months ago - and they suggested that you wait until at least 3.1 for a production environment. Installing a new release on a production system within days of its' release always has the chance of being dicey. No matter how much you beta test something still seems to come out that was missed. On another OS I just got a 56 page list of bugs that were fixed from the previous version to the shipping version. There were some very good people on the beta test for months - and there are still things popping up that weren't seen before. Bugs beget bugs. Or removing one makes another bug apparent. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message