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From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs...
To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan)
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 18:19:47 +1000 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970407172653.10264J-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> from "Daniel O'Callaghan" at Apr 7, 97 05:36:00 pm
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In some mail from Daniel O'Callaghan, sie said:
> 
> 
> 
> 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.

Right.  IMHO this is what FreeBSD should be doing 'officially', only source
(maybe diffs) as well as binaries.

Darren