From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 17 19:19:32 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA20209 for current-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 19:19:32 -0700 Received: from DATAPLEX.NET (SHARK.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA20196 for ; Sun, 17 Sep 1995 19:19:26 -0700 Received: from [199.183.109.242] by DATAPLEX.NET with SMTP (MailShare 1.0fc5); Sun, 17 Sep 1995 21:18:37 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 21:18:39 -0500 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: rkw@dataplex.net (Richard Wackerbarth) Subject: Re: Which SUP files are available and where ? Cc: "Garrett A. Wollman" , current@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 8:37 PM 9/17/95, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >sup and CTM were designed to do very *different* things and I don't >think that one can replace the other. I agree. However, I think that 1) There is a strong need to continue to fix bugs in a released version up to the time that the next version is released. (And if you are releasing unstable code, even longer) 2) Since there would not be many patches expected, an event driven system is preferable to a polled system of distribution. 3) We could also offer an "anouncement" service to notify those users who prefer to fetch the updates via ftp or sup. ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net