Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 22:20:07 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Upcoming Releases Message-ID: <D7F159DB-757F-4637-A9A7-B9F4C10F665C@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1603152209110.3734@wonkity.com> References: <EEFD0376-2038-4801-9A7A-BF342B66F029@lafn.org> <20160305181742.9c3abe96.freebsd@edvax.de> <DE7BAC1A-0B40-4B2A-861A-6AE7B16FAC0D@lafn.org> <DBC62E3B-B07D-4A3F-AD22-E3EB62484725@lafn.org> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1603152209110.3734@wonkity.com>
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> On 15 March 2016, at 21:11, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >=20 > On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, Doug Hardie wrote: >=20 >> I recently saw a comment in one of the maillists that 11.0 was likely = to have the new packetized base feature. That tells me that 11.0 is = most likely to be dicey to work with. I am reminded when the new pkg = system came out and the supporting servers were compromised. >=20 > To the best of my knowledge, there was no relation between pkg and any = compromises. There was a period where the regular pkg servers were not available = because they had to be rebuilt. I don't recall the dates. It was not = pkg_ng, but the first major revision to pkg after that. >=20 > Any new release is bound to have problems. But this one is likely to = be smoother than most, as many of the developers and most of the cluster = have been running -HEAD as part of the "dogfood" program. Problems are = found and fixed early. =E2=80=94 Doug
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