From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 29 20:13:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA04120 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:17:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA04031 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 19:16:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bdd.net ([207.61.78.33]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id MAA18080 for ; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 12:10:03 -0700 Received: from localhost (james@localhost) by bdd.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA11245; Sat, 29 Jun 1996 15:06:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 15:06:09 -0400 (EDT) From: James FitzGibbon To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1-960627-SNAP (2.1.5 BETA) is released. In-Reply-To: <7446.836019166@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 28 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > want, and we are working on such a model, but in the meantime it's > probably best to think of -stable coming to an end with 2.1.5-RELEASE. > > We recommend this upcoming 2.1.5 release over the 2.2-SNAPshot > releases to anyone for whom stability and dependability are of > paramount importance. This is not to say that the 2.2 lineage is As I understand the existing install routines, installing a distribution over an existing system means some manual migrating of configuration files, moving things back into /etc, and so on. If this is still the case, could the code for 2.1.5 be left on the SUP servers as -stable for a periopd (one month?) after the release comes out ? That way, the people who have been following -stable can do one final SUP, make world, and decide where to go from there without having to manually migrate systems (which, dependent on the number of systems, could be a nightmare.) -- j. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | James FitzGibbon james@nexis.net | | Integrator, The Nexis Group Voice/Fax : 416 410-0100 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------