Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:15:29 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" <hackmiester@hackmiester.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! Message-ID: <20060914231529.GA59423@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <E1887D8A-0799-489A-87D1-1304D0D05F2D@hackmiester.com> References: <20060909173813.GA1388@FS.denninger.net> <45065C67.6040503@cs.tu-berlin.de> <C9F971C5-50FE-4BF0-9975-83E8072E6C3F@hackmiester.com> <4509A7ED.4090701@cs.tu-berlin.de> <E1887D8A-0799-489A-87D1-1304D0D05F2D@hackmiester.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 05:34:08PM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: > > On 14 September 2006, at 14:05, Bj?rn K?nig wrote: > > >hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) schrieb: > >>On 12 September 2006, at 02:06, Bj?rn K?nig wrote: > >>>Karl Denninger schrieb: > >>> > >>>>This is not cool folks. > >>> > >>> > >>>I think you misunderstood what -STABLE means. (Or maybe I do?) > >>> > >>>-STABLE is still a development branch without guarantee of a > >>>stable and working operating system. > >>Hahahahaha... That's ironic... > > > >That wasn't meant to be ironic. Years of experience and > >observations of development lead to this conclusion. > > RIght. All i can say, though, is that someone that doesn't know any > better would probably not think "Oh! That means that upgrades are > possible between releases, and not that my system will actually run, > or anything!" > It just seems it'd be quite a cause of confusion. Anyone who is confused but doesn't attempt to enlighten themselves by reading the provided documentation deserves to stay confused :) Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFCeKRWry0BWjoQKURAgOtAKChLnMJBKeD+MC7NJdYhN+k1tNbgACgltDc RVBBxSK9YFS5OM3Tb2SC9dU= =179j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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