From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 11 9:49:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E86A537B5F9 for ; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:49:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0501F115; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:49:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id JAA01266; Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:49:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <396B5002.B03318A8@cup.hp.com> Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 09:49:06 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Mike O'Dell" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems building kernels References: <200007111612.MAA61587@servo.ccr.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike O'Dell wrote: > > is anyone else more than a little concerned that the people who > ostensibly understand all the details can't agree as to how to > do what and when?? You don't have to be more than a little concerned. This is simply a case where reality has departed from the intended. It's been noticed and acted upon. > and this is supposed to be STABLE??? The intended is STABLE, reality never is :-) > give us a break, guys. you don't go changing how a kernel > gets built in a release called STABLE. We didn't do that. We simply changed our support mantra... > and if you didn't do that, please explain that we can just > ignore all the mail the last few days and go back to > trying to figure out why cvsup-ing the latest STABLE > release doesn't compile/run-on-SMP/etc,etc,etc Please ignore all the mail you received in the last couple of days. But don't you dare ask why you can't build a kernel :-) > i'll restate my minority view that the FreeBSD project > *really* needs to rethink their release names and the > whole release process, rather than explaining that > we don't understand the effort's peculiar definitions > of words like "stable" Different issue. Different thread. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message