Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:29:20 -0400 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> To: Thorsten Futrega <tfutrega@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon Message-ID: <20030529172919.GA17746@lenny.anarcat.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <20030529171842.4689.qmail@web21401.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20030529171842.4689.qmail@web21401.mail.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On the tune of some cute Ramones song... "Beat on the Troll Beat on the Troll Beat on the Troll With a baseball bat Oh yeah! Oh yeah! Oh yeah!" A. On Thu May 29, 2003 at 06:18:42PM +0100, Thorsten Futrega wrote: > Dear users, > > The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to > allow for some final pending work to be committed and > prepare 5.1 to be a good release. The code freeze will > > likely end sometime tomorrow, May 30. > > We ask that large scale changes still be deferred > until after 5.1 is actually released so that any > problems can be dealt with. The release > engineering team will send out emails explicitely > stating when HEAD has thawed and when large changes > like new compilers and dynamic-linked worlds can go > it. > > The most important changes I'm going to commit today: > > - Remove gcc and replace it with a new TenDRA > snapshot. > - Remove GNU tar. > - Fix httpd.ko to make it work on buggy AMD > processors. > - Drop support for 386 and 486 cpus. > - Remove ext2 support (GPL encumbered). > - Add perl 5.8 *and* python 2.2 to base. > - Remove Sendmail and replace it with Postfix. > > If anyone has any reason why these should not be > committed, I'll give a 5 hours grace time. Send > replies > to the list. > > Thank you. > > Thorsten and the rest or the release engineering team. > > __________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Plus - For a better Internet experience > http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/yplus/yoffer.html > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Seul a un caractère scientifique ce qui peut être réfuté. Ce qui n'est pas réfutable relève de la magie ou de la mystique. - Popper, Karl [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+1kNvttcWHAnWiGcRAhP+AJ40Gx1nbTWyZp6Czb16cvTFDbwwzQCdEFdW Gc9TR2Rv0DV3hMyJaVRM1m0= =kXga -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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