From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 17 03:18:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id DAA13094 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 03:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA13073 for ; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 03:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA05494; Sat, 17 Aug 1996 13:22:10 +0300 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 1996 13:22:09 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Dave Hayes cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , jkh@time.cdrom.com, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Sup-ing stable In-Reply-To: <199608161958.MAA28130@kachina.jetcafe.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 16 Aug 1996, Dave Hayes wrote: > > You sure it doesn't say something like: FreeBSD SkyRsh.aac.dev.com > > 2.1-STABLE FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: Sun Aug 11 12:46:13 PDT 1996 > > root@SkyRsh.aac.dev.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/SKYRSH i386 > > Sure. But here's two machines I have loaded this on to: > > FreeBSD avalon.jetcafe.org 2.1-STABLE FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #0: Sun Aug > 11 23:12:32 1996 dave@avalon.jetcafe.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/AVALON > i386 > > FreeBSD elxr.jetcafe.org 2.1.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #0: Mon > Jul 29 05:01:05 PDT 1996 dave@elxr.jetcafe.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/ELXR i386 > > Note the time differences, those are approximately when I sup'd the > distributions. > > > Note, 2.1-STABLE, not 2.1-RELEASE. > > I know. However, I agree with this 100%: > > > I think there is enough confusion out there that the strings should be > > changed to this: > > TYPE="FreeBSD" > > REVISION="2.1.5" > > BRANCH="STABLE" > > Also... > > > 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. Freeze? You mean the code freeze before the release? It is long over. But the -stable brance is no more developed - *only* bug fixes go to it. Sander > ------ > Dave Hayes - Altadena CA, USA - dave@jetcafe.org > Freedom Knight of Usenet - http://www.jetcafe.org/~dave/usenet > > The practice of study only too often makes people mere repeaters and > producers of cliches and sayings. Such study has been all but wasted. > The product has taken the form in which we find it because it is an > unsuitable graft upon an unprepared basis. > > >