From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 14 23:15:36 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5137E16A4A7 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:15:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2712743D6D for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:15:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C44F1A3C20; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 16:15:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 592C351448; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:15:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:15:29 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: "hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" Message-ID: <20060914231529.GA59423@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060909173813.GA1388@FS.denninger.net> <45065C67.6040503@cs.tu-berlin.de> <4509A7ED.4090701@cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:15:36 -0000 --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 05:34:08PM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote: >=20 > On 14 September 2006, at 14:05, Bj?rn K?nig wrote: >=20 > >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 =20 > >>>stable and working operating system. > >>Hahahahaha... That's ironic... > > > >That wasn't meant to be ironic. Years of experience and =20 > >observations of development lead to this conclusion. >=20 > RIght. All i can say, though, is that someone that doesn't know any =20 > better would probably not think "Oh! That means that upgrades are =20 > possible between releases, and not that my system will actually run, =20 > 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 --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFCeKRWry0BWjoQKURAgOtAKChLnMJBKeD+MC7NJdYhN+k1tNbgACgltDc RVBBxSK9YFS5OM3Tb2SC9dU= =179j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cWoXeonUoKmBZSoM--