From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 22 1:37:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91FC037B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:37:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from office.advantage-interactive.com (host217-37-74-237.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.37.74.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44D443E31 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 01:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@irrelevant.org) Received: from devbox.advantage-interactive.com ([192.168.254.128]) by office.advantage-interactive.com with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17WYh6-00007i-00; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 09:37:28 +0100 Subject: Re: why not 4.6.1-RELEASE ? From: Simon Dick To: Patrick Thomas Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20020722011555.E37640-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> References: <20020722011555.E37640-100000@utility.clubscholarship.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/1.0.2 Date: 22 Jul 2002 09:37:28 +0100 Message-Id: <1027327048.1758.0.camel@linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 2002-07-22 at 09:17, Patrick Thomas wrote: > > Just curious - because of the resolver bug, every _single_ FreeBSD > installation that now occurs has to be accompanied by a cvsup to -stable, > etc. > > Not that this is so bad, but why require every single person - from new to > the OS to veteran - to cvsup just to have a usable system ? > > It seems to me that if a bug like this (resolver) comes up, a > 4.6.1-RELEASE is in order, so people can do a normal install and still get > a usable system.... > > comments ? Look on the ftp server, there's already release candidates for 4.6.1 -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message