From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 20:13:34 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA37E16A421 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 20:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B550913C44B for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 20:13:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cperciva@freebsd.org) Received: from pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr1so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.110]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JIT008KBK6AJ4D0@l-daemon> for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 14:13:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JIT00BKEK697O00@pd2mr1so.prod.shaw.ca> for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 14:13:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from hexahedron.daemonology.net ([24.82.18.31]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with SMTP id <0JIT002HUK688980@l-daemon> for stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 May 2007 14:13:21 -0600 (MDT) Received: (qmail 964 invoked from network); Tue, 29 May 2007 20:13:02 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hexahedron.daemonology.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; Tue, 29 May 2007 20:13:02 +0000 Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 13:13:01 -0700 From: Colin Percival In-reply-to: <465C84B5.10500@samsco.org> To: Scott Long Message-id: <465C894D.8080909@freebsd.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 References: <465BF62B.6090904@vwsoft.com> <20070529102929.GA49322@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <465C06CE.6000703@delphij.net> <465C4624.5020004@freebsd.org> <465C49B5.8080003@freebsd.org> <465C84B5.10500@samsco.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070511) Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: release cycle X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 20:13:34 -0000 Scott Long wrote: > Colin Percival wrote: >> I point releases have been obsoleted by errata notices. In the past when >> X.Y.Z-RELEASE has happened, it has been because of critical bugs in the >> X.Y-RELEASE which there wasn't any other mechanism to fix. Now that we >> have errata noticed and FreeBSD Update is in the base system, it's vastly >> easier for users to run "freebsd-update fetch install" than it is for >> them to upgrade to a new release. > > Not really. 5.2.1 existed because people were having problems getting > 5.2 installed on their ATA disks. If you have big problems with storage > or network, freebsd-update isn't going to be of much use to you. Good point, I was forgetting exactly what the problems were that time. Colin Percival