From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 9 9:15:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (breg.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E49937B417 for ; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 09:15:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from sheol.localdomain (hawkeyd-fw.dsl.visi.com [208.42.101.193]) by breg.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC0D2D0E3B; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:15:41 -0600 (CST) Received: (from hawkeyd@localhost) by sheol.localdomain (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fB9HFNC23441; Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:15:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from hawkeyd) Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 11:15:23 -0600 From: D J Hawkey Jr To: Lamont Granquist Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tangent for discussion: FreeBSD performs worse that Linux Message-ID: <20011209111523.A23357@sheol.localdomain> Reply-To: hawkeyd@visi.com References: <20011209100855.A22942@sheol.localdomain> <20011209084620.V14858-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011209084620.V14858-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>; from lamont@scriptkiddie.org on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 08:54:52AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- ______________________ ______________________ \__________________ \ D. J. HAWKEY JR. / __________________/ \________________/\ hawkeyd@visi.com /\________________/ http://www.visi.com/~hawkeyd/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message