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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
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Subject: Re: RELENG_4_4
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they aren't so naive..
they follow BSD SAs tremselves (and everything else they have in-house.)

I'm basically just sayng..
"for as long as it's practical, keep teh 4.4 tree going as you've got
custommers for it"  When it bewcomes inpractical.
then fine, but 'til then....
inthe end I may even take on adding hte patches to the 4..4 tree
as I'd have to do it in house anyway...


On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 7:32 PM
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > We will be moving  those on 4.1.1 to 4.4 so that they are all at the
> same
> > level, but we cannot move them up to 4.5 or 4.8 or whatever for
> > at least another 18 months as they don't upgrade production systems
> more
> > than once on 2 years in general.
> 
> Instead of calling it an "upgrade", call it a system "patch".  It just
> so happens that the RELENG_4_5 "patch" will ensure that the OS is up to
> date on security issues and more!  :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Drew
> 
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