From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Apr 21 13:42:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from raven.ravenbrook.com (raven.ravenbrook.com [193.82.131.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C13837B423 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nb@ravenbrook.com) Received: from thrush.ravenbrook.com (thrush.ravenbrook.com [193.112.141.249]) by raven.ravenbrook.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA06037 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 21:42:39 +0100 (BST) Received: from thrush.ravenbrook.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thrush.ravenbrook.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3LKh7K15255 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:43:07 GMT (envelope-from nb@thrush.ravenbrook.com) From: Nick Barnes To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The RELENG_4 (aka -stable) branch is now unfrozen In-Reply-To: Message from Jordan Hubbard of "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 10:56:40 MST." <20010421105640G.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 20:43:07 +0000 Message-ID: <15253.987885787@thrush.ravenbrook.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG My main complaint about the way the packages are divided up is that there seems to be no automation of the "hmm, it's not on that CD-ROM, must be on one of these others" process. Inferior systems have had the "now insert disk 5" routine down pat since the disks were 8" floppies. In short, I want to be able to pick packages from a complete list and then have sysinstall direct my disk swapping. Last time I installed from CD (4.1) this was not the case. Nick B At 2001-04-21 17:56:40+0000, Jordan Hubbard writes: > From: Oliver Fromme > Subject: Re: The RELENG_4 (aka -stable) branch is now unfrozen > Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 17:00:43 +0200 (CEST) > > > In that case I think I could take over the job. ;-) > > I'm doing the release for the Lehmanns Edition of FreeBSD > > right now ... > > I'd be interested to know how you go about splitting up the packages. > Steve Price does a great job, but even he'll be the first to admit > that it needs to be a lot better automated. :) We need to check > more of the "post-release" scripts into the tree which turn the > output of make release into the CD image sets. > > - Jordan > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message