Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:04:47 -0500 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.org Subject: Updating Bash Message-ID: <20111117120447.73447103@scorpio>
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I understand that there seems to be some reluctance to updating the "shells/bash" port until after the release of FreeBSD-9.0 at some future date. I am not sure I understand the reasoning behind this logic. If there is a problem with the newer version of Bash, currently 4.1.11 in ports with version 4.2.x currently available and the soon to be released version of 4.3 on the horizon; wouldn't it make more sense to find out if there is in fact a problem with this shell version prior to the release of FreeBSD-9.0? Bash is a commonly used shell and I cannot see what the goal of abstaining from updating it now is? It would certainly seem that if waiting for FBSD-9.0's release and subsequently finding out that the newer version of Bash fails would compound fixing the problem. -- Jerry ♔ Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __________________________________________________________________ The best way to avoid responsibility is to blame it on someone else.
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