Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 01:17:45 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: "Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>, dave@kachina.jetcafe.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, stable@freeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sup-ing stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960817011624.1321B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <199608162131.OAA08745@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Steven G. Kargl wrote: > I 've lost track of the attributions. > > >> > >>> It's still the ``STABLE'' branch, but PAST the 2.1.5 release tag... > >>> ``STABLE'' == the cvs RELENG_2_1_0 tag, so I don't want to here the > >>> cvs tag confustion again please... > >> > >> Are people still patching this tree? I thought you guys wanted to > >> freeze this code. > > > > Yes, I am still patching this tree, and if the FreeBSD project kills the > > tree I will be setting up my own area to maintain this realease. With > > several 100 customers dependant upon being able to run this and have > > bugs fixed it would be too important to me to have support for it totally > > dropped. If I have to go to a ``patchkit'' to do it, I will. > > > > FreeBSD Org does send patches to CERT for security related problems. > Supping the -stable branch to acquire these patches is preferable over > a possible manual patching from the CERT announcement. > > The -stable branch should be a maintenance branch. No new features. > No new drivers. Just fixes. But it is as that on the moment! Sander > > $0.02 > > -- > Steve >
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