From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jan 24 22:46:27 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27225 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:46:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27215 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:46:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id WAA03249; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:46:53 -0800 (PST) To: rcramer@sytex.net cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the Final EOL Disposition of v2.2.8? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 01:41:44 EST." <199901250641.BAA01199@cscfx.sytex.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 22:46:47 -0800 Message-ID: <3242.917246807@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > bright then the next guy, but what is the final disposition of v2.2.8? To be gracefully retired. > I would think that anything that was operational on v2.2.8, including package s > and ports, up until the cut over to v3.0-STABLE, would be frozen at that poin t > and kept at that state (read down loadable by whatever flavor you prefer) > for the foreseeable future. Is that our plan? That is. > Why am I asking this? It seems that others are and I have not seen a direct > answer. Additionally, while FTP'ing a v2.2.8 system today I got caught in > a predicament where after downloading the bash2 package via sysinstall on > the system I had just loaded, bash2 was and ELF version, changing both root That's an FTP site mixup rather than any indication of policy. If your 2.2.8 system grabbed any sort of ELF package then that's an error, plain and simple. Which FTP site did you use? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message