Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:15:23 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr <hawkeyd@visi.com> To: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux Message-ID: <20011209111523.A23357@sheol.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20011209084620.V14858-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>; from lamont@scriptkiddie.org on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:54:52AM -0800 References: <20011209100855.A22942@sheol.localdomain> <20011209084620.V14858-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>
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On Dec 09, at 08:54 AM, Lamont Granquist wrote:
>
> I think what "would be cool" would be to have a RELENG_4_4_BUGFIX tree
> which was for bugfixes, but was feature frozen. It shouldn't get new
> features like dirprefs (otherwise its difficult to differentiate it from
> -STABLE itself) but it should get bugfixes. That way FreeBSD would wind
> up with some extremely stable and feature frozen code.
Well, this isn't exactly where I was going. The gist of my post was to
try to see if some "official" mechanism(s) could be built to enhance and
extend (cough) previous releases beyond the RELENG_(release - 1) security
upgrade policy introduced with the 4.3 and 4.4 releases.
Besides, aren't you describing the CVS snapshots known as RELEASEs?
> Unfortunately, I'm not qualified to volunteer to engineer such a branching
> scheme...
I could maintain a "not-FreeBSD-sanctioned" site for patches of -CURRENT
and -STABLE code applyable to previous releases, but that would only muddy
the FreeBSD maintenance and distribution waters that I think work well for
what they're intended to address, as well as open myself up to all sorts
of support and maintenance headaches.
Dave
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