Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 21:23:51 -0700 From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: "Miroslav Pendev" <shadow@CPE0004761ac738-CM00109515bc65.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com>, "questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Matthew Plews" <plews@bigpond.net.au>, "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.6 Install Problem Message-ID: <200206190423.g5J4NpdJ038914@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20020619011031327.AAA637@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> References: <20020619011031327.AAA637@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com>
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--==_Exmh_-1736512773P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, "Philip J. Koenig" wrote: > Good point. If people were seriously talking over on -security about > a new ISO to incorporate that Apache patch, None of those people were on the release engineering or port manager teams, which are the bodies who would be ultimately responsible for doing the work. :-p > I'd definitely suggest > releasing 4.6a with something to allow new installers to turn on the > DMA switch before running the install from an IDE CDROM. I wrote an errata note with a workaround for this, and posted a pointer to stable@ earlier today. Feedback is encouraged before I commit this to the release documentation and Web site, hopefully in the next day or so: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/doc/errata/article.pdf It sounds like you had something more automatic in mind. This involves code that doesn't exist. Until someone writes it, this is a moot point. (Better would be to get sos@ a block of time and the right equipment to troubleshoot this problem and "really" fix it. The trick, of course, is the time.) > There may be some political/logistical issues I'm not aware of > though, like mirror sites and so forth, so the RE people will have to > make that call. The rest of this email is my own personal opinion, and doesn't necessarily reflect that of anyone else on the RE team. OK. One practical issue is that two of the release engineers (including the RE team lead) are currently out of email contact. The remaining three of us haven't discussed this issue...at this time, we have no plans to re-release any part of 4.6. It's not as easy as re-running "make release". There's the very significant issues of doing another QA cycle on a re-release, etc., not to mention the disruption to vendors' production schedules. I'm not saying "no, it won't happen", but I think it's unlikely. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1736512773P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.5+ 20020506 iD8DBQE9EAdW2MoxcVugUsMRAjH4AKDv9ZOE0N8v4Gu1E3Pzw+vHx5uu8QCgr2H8 PO6sz0sztxcZNaFUQPO75Rk= =9eBC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1736512773P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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