Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 15:20:15 -0600 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <veldy@veldy.net> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, "Kirk Strauser" <kirk@strauser.com> Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE vs SA-03:07 Message-ID: <00eb01c2f894$7d5efaa0$0a05010a@VELDYT> References: <20030401141454.N43325-100000@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua><87znnaw7vq.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net><20030401224035.R474@trillian.santala.org> <87u1diufey.fsf@pooh.honeypot.net>
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Such software could be written ... :) Tom Veldhouse ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kirk Strauser" <kirk@strauser.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 2:32 PM Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE vs SA-03:07 At 2003-04-01T19:54:44Z, Jarkko Santala <jake@iki.fi> writes: > IMHO _nothing_ should be called X.Y-RELEASE unless it is truly > X.Y-RELEASE. This goes for any files on ftp and any cvs repositories. Once > you tag something as X.Y-RELEASE or once you make any files public with > that name on it, it becomes that release. I understand the point you want to make, but there are some subtle issues. Foremost is that there are many mirrors of the main FTP server. The release team will upload the final product and let the mirrors fetch a copy before announcing it officially so that it's available on all of the mirrors the moment the message is sent. There's no great way around that unless you can convince all of your mirrors to download `giant-unnamed-tarball.tar.gz' and then simultaneously rename it to `freebsd-4.8-release.tar.gz' when the release team hits the "Send" button. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
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