From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 17:24:33 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B1016A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:24:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd3mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7354343D31 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:24:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.23])2004))freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:24:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IF500K7GKCJ2O90@pd3mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:24:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from [192.168.0.60] (S0106006067227a4a.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.209.6]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IF500918KCJ0E@l-daemon> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 11:24:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:24:03 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <6.2.1.2.2.20050418105722.05c08490@localhost> To: Brett Glass Message-id: <4263ED33.6040504@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 References: <20050412213328.GC1953@lava.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417185631.05349ee0@localhost> <200504180330.37184.danny@ricin.com> <426310A0.7060906@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050417202031.0490ad98@localhost> <4263280B.3010601@freebsd.org> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418020749.05761298@localhost> <002b01c5442c$d4a1caf0$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418094749.057187f0@localhost> <007c01c5442f$c9a36ed0$9b00030a@officescape.net> <6.2.1.2.2.20050418105722.05c08490@localhost> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050406) cc: Steve Ames cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Will 5.4 be an "Extended Life" release? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 17:24:33 -0000 Brett Glass wrote: > Actually, it tends not to recognize it at all. If the string doesn't > say "4.11-RELEASE", the software reports that ports, packages, etc. > can't be found. Try installing packages with /stand/sysinstall on > a snapshot and you'll see what I mean. Colin's "FreeBSD-update" seems > to exhibit similar behavior. FreeBSD Update will complain if it isn't foo-RELEASE or foo-SECURITY. I added this because some people were running FreeBSD Update on -STABLE or -CURRENT systems and getting, err, unanticipated breakage. (Consider what happens when you "update" a 5.0-current system by replacing its libc.so with one from a fully security-patched 5.0-release system.) I usually choose to allow users to shoot their own feet if they want, but since I wrote FreeBSD Update primarily for the benefit of less experienced FreeBSD users I decided that some anti-foot-shooting mechanisms were a good idea. Colin Percival