From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 8 22:38:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B0D37B66C for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:38:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gorean.org (Studded@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA70045; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39E159E0.B15E7AE1@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 22:38:40 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-100 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Merges in to STABLE branches References: <20001008134028.C69484@lucifer.bart.nl> <39E148B1.A19A6FFE@gorean.org> <20001009073256.A79356@lucifer.bart.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven wrote: > > -On [20001009 06:30], Doug Barton (DougB@gorean.org) wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what specifically were you planning to commit to 2.2? > >Unless it's something that is a very high security risk it may be better > >to avoid disrupting this branch. In particular you want to be very > >careful about disrupting the ability to upgrade to 3.x from > >2.2.8-Stable. > > Nothing fancy, just security gixes I guess. > > Erhm, while I may make a mistake every now and then, I do test my > changes as much as possible. I am in no way impugning your ability. > And I have no intention to mess with the > upgrade path at all. The problem is that in the past small, seemingly unrelated changes have damaged the ability to upgrade. I think my point is that the potential for problems is greater than any possible benefit. Doug -- "The dead cannot be seduced." - Kai, "Lexx" Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message