Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 13:56:14 -0400 From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@yumyumyum.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Major commits in the tree coming soon Message-ID: <20030529175614.GA34328@unixdaemons.com> In-Reply-To: <20030529134907.B81457-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org> References: <20030529171842.4689.qmail@web21401.mail.yahoo.com> <20030529134907.B81457-100000@alpha.yumyumyum.org>
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For the benefit of the majority: This post was FAKE. Now please return to your regularly scheduled discussion and kindly ignore all future posts to this thread. -Bosko On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 01:50:33PM -0400, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > The HEAD code freeze was extended by three days to > > allow for some final pending work to be committed and > > prepare 5.1 to be a good release. The code freeze will > > > > likely end sometime tomorrow, May 30. > > > > We ask that large scale changes still be deferred > > until after 5.1 is actually released so that any > > problems can be dealt with. The release > > engineering team will send out emails explicitely > > stating when HEAD has thawed and when large changes > > like new compilers and dynamic-linked worlds can go > > it. > > > > The most important changes I'm going to commit today: > > > > - Remove gcc and replace it with a new TenDRA > > snapshot. > > I'm just wondering... but is there a reason why gcc is being replaced? Is > there a page or a previous list mail that explains the reasons? URL? > Thanks. > > > - Remove GNU tar. > > - Fix httpd.ko to make it work on buggy AMD > > processors. > > - Drop support for 386 and 486 cpus. > > - Remove ext2 support (GPL encumbered). > > - Add perl 5.8 *and* python 2.2 to base. > > - Remove Sendmail and replace it with Postfix. > > > > If anyone has any reason why these should not be > > committed, I'll give a 5 hours grace time. Send > > replies > > to the list. > > > > Thank you. > > > > Thorsten and the rest or the release engineering team. > > > Thanks > > Ken > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@unixdaemons.com bmilekic@FreeBSD.org
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