Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 15:43:06 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: jason andrade <jason@dstc.edu.au> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, hubs@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.7 RC1 coming down the pipe.. Message-ID: <20020918224306.GA53117@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0209190821290.12966-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au> References: <20020918221834.GA52458@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.GSO.4.44.0209190821290.12966-100000@sunburn.dstc.edu.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 08:23:06AM +1000, jason andrade wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > For now, I will probably upload the 4.7-RC package sets (not yet > > ready) into packages-4-stable and create a symlink for 4.7. In the > > meantime, I'll have to try and find space for the 4.7-release package > > sets (maybe I can remove the 5.0-dp1 packages). > > hmm. sigh. it also looks like freebsd is moving from .tgz to .tbz > files. did i miss this announcement somewhere since it appears > that large chunks (all of?) packages-4-stable are being redone > into .tbz Yes, you missed the announcement. > how will this affect previous installations (4.X where X < 6) which > are symlinking their package trees back into 4-stable for remote > installation purposes ? That will no longer work (and I removed the symlinks the other day on ftp-master), but it was never supported and only ever worked by chance anyway. Anyway, there's a chance we will be reverting to .tgz packages for 4.7 because the changeover was handled badly and is not yet complete. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9iQF6Wry0BWjoQKURAlwRAKDSwsNdALL0cjYk9yk3eXSuLh7X6gCgipdC jnsBMjdtZ8TsNftrMb6B4Pk= =Y93f -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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