From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17:30: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6944E37B491 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:29:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA92539; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 02:29:54 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Warner Losh Cc: Peter Wemm , Daniel Eischen , John Indra , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) References: <200102130105.f1D15aU56009@mobile.wemm.org> <200102130121.f1D1LwW33639@harmony.village.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Feb 2001 02:29:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 12 Feb 2001 18:21:58 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh writes: > I'd like to see a bias against major bumps remain in place, but I > think that this change requires one. That is, we still don't > generally bump major verions, but are allowed to when the pain is > major. We can keep that bias by using temporary three-digit majors in -CURRENT and backing down to a single-digit major right before the first -RELEASE. In this specific case, we'd go from 5 to 500 or 501, then back to 5 right before 5.0-RELEASE; this will still screw people with older-than-feb-10 systems but at least they'll have plenty of time to rebuild their ports and stuff. For 6.0, we'd go straight from 5 to 600 or 601, then down to 6 right before 6.0-RELEASE, and nobody would get screwed. You know it makes sense. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message