Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:14:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@hades.hell.gr> To: Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu> Cc: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: release 3.5? Message-ID: <20000201211454.C1678@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <3895ED45.2DB1F35B@owp.csus.edu>; from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu on Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:15:01PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001311936050.1401-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3895ED45.2DB1F35B@owp.csus.edu>
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On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:15:01PM -0800, Joseph Scott wrote: > > Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > > > Will there be more 3.x releases, or is it frozen like 2.x and we move > > on to 4.x? > > > > -=> jm <=- > > 3.x will continue until 4.x becomes the -STABLE branch. So there > will be at least one more release of 3.x, which will be 3.5 ( in May > according to http://www.freebsdmall.com/software/bsd40malloffer.phtml > ). > > What's happening now is trying to start the move of -STABLE from 3.x > to 4.x. However it's not something that's designed to be over night. > The url I listed above gives a short blurb about this. It takes some courage and careful, scrutinous reading of the relevant documentation. I got bitten only recently, and had to reinstall the base system after booting from a 4.0-CURRENT snapshot's floppies. Plus, 4.0 is prone to breaking overnight, after some commit leaves the sources in a strange state. And if one's not reading the excellent discussions of the freebsd-current list, he'll probably end up being bitten more than once by compilation errors, etc. I hope that now, after the code freeze announced by Jordan, the sources of 4.0 will remain relatively, uhm, stable. I think that the aim of -current now is to check that the transition from 3.x to 4.0 will be as painless as possible for everyone. I would not wish to anyone to reinstall everything, after the same fashion I am now reconfiguring half of my system. Good thing I had kept backups of /usr/home and /usr/home/cvs has a copy of all the configuration files I had touched :))) -- Giorgos Keramidas, < keramida @ ceid . upatras . gr > For my public PGP key: finger keramida@diogenis.ceid.upatras.gr PGP fingerprint, phone and address in the headers of this message. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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