From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 29 08:54:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B779E16A4CE for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:54:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB5D343FDD for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 08:54:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from daleco.biz ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.0); Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:57:31 -0600 Message-ID: <3F9FF0C4.1070201@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:54:28 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030920 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brett Glass References: <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org> In-Reply-To: <200310291641.JAA27852@lariat.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Oct 2003 16:57:32.0484 (UTC) FILETIME=[BE9FC040:01C39E3D] cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How stable is 4.9-RELEASE proving to be? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:54:52 -0000 Brett Glass wrote: >We need immediate feedback on the stability of FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. (Yes, I >know, people are just starting to download it now.) We want and need some of >the important fixes that went into -STABLE in the past month (including vital >upates to IPFW2), but can't afford to put a release that's not absolutely >solid on a production system. (For the same reason, we probably won't go to >5.x until 5.3.) The comment in the release notes suggesting that conservative >users stick with 4.8-RELEASE is not encouraging. If 4.9 isn't stable, we may >be forced to jump over to OpenBSD 3.4 for new production systems. > >Will there be a 4.9.1 if there are serious problems in 4.9? > >--Brett Glass > > $cvsup mysupfile Connected to cvsup11.freebsd.org Updating collection src-all/cvs Edit src/Makefile.inc1 Edit src/UPDATING So far, so good ;-) KDK