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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs...
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On Mon, 7 Apr 1997, Darren Reed wrote:

> it begs the question: if we're changing 2.2 after 2.2-RELEASE is made,
> what does 2.2-RELEASE mean if my 2.2-RELEASE is different to yours ?
> 
> Does-RELEASE have any meaning any more ?
> 
> Should all FreeBSD just be a series of SNAPSHOTs ?

My feeling is that a RELEASE should be immutable, but a differences 
binary package should be produced as an update pack.  This would save 
people from having to download 90 MB or more for each upgrade.  I have 
produced a 2.2->2.2.1 binary upgrade package which is 7 MB - much more 
palatable for people to download.

Danny