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Date:      Thu, 20 Jul 2000 00:58:31 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com>
To:        Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gavin Cameron <gavin@itworks.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: What does -RC mean? was: Re: Stable broken
Message-ID:  <3976B127.9E42BC4E@urx.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007200001080.84615-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <3976A60C.BE9DE986@urx.com> <20000720093305.A367@alaska.cert.siemens.de>

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Udo Schweigert wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 00:11:08 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote:
> >
> >
> > Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Gavin Cameron wrote:
> > >
> > > > >From a cvsupped stable this morning I'm getting the following error in
> > > > /sbin/ipf
> > >
> > > Yes, and if you'd been following -stable you'd have saved yourself the
> > > trouble. I've committed one more patch which I hope will fix things now
> > > (for the record, it wasn't me who broke all this ;-) My buildworld is
> > > still underway, so I won't be sure for an hour or so.
> >
> > I thought the whole world was follow you all. Everytime you thought it
> > was fixed all of the US cvsup sites that I use hit their limit :). I
> > had never been rejected by cvsup7 until tonight.
> >
> 
> This is due to the fact that the in ports tree the tag RELEASE_4_1_0 has
> been added and so cvsup takes much longer since each file in the ports tree
> has to be changed.

It did jump from 5 or 6 minutes to 20+.

> 
> Anyway: it is a little bit annoying that the -stable branch keeps to be broken
> especially since it is labeled as a "release candidate" (4.1-RC). To my
> understanding a "release candidate" should only be changed if serious problems
> are detected (and not, for example, to bring in ipfilter update to -current and
> -stable at the same time, without testing period in -current). I thought having
> a release candidate should ensure that the final release is as stable as can be.
> Every change to the release candidate would normally result in a restart of the
> testing period.

There were a couple of concurrent failures. The ipfilter problem
wasn't seen on my end until nametoaddr.c was fixed. We found
nametoaddr.c was broken almost 24 hours ago. Messages popped up
separated by 4 minutes. It was fixed this morning about 8 hours later
and then ipfilter hit.

I guess the code freeze time has been reached now and we can see what
we have. My first buildworld just finished. Now, I will see what my
buildkernel does.

Kent


> 
> Other oppinions out there?
> 
> Regards
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