From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 12:37:39 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.x-treme.gr (mx2.x-treme.gr [212.120.192.15]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 780763F67 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 12:37:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from hades.hell.gr (pat33.x-treme.gr [212.120.197.225]) by mx2.x-treme.gr (8.9.3/8.9.3/IPNG-ADV-ANTISPAM-0.1) with SMTP id WAA22104 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 22:37:10 +0200 Received: (qmail 2028 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Feb 2000 19:14:54 -0000 Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:14:54 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Joseph Scott Cc: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: release 3.5? Message-ID: <20000201211454.C1678@hades.hell.gr> Reply-To: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr References: <3895ED45.2DB1F35B@owp.csus.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3895ED45.2DB1F35B@owp.csus.edu>; from joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu on Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 12:15:01PM -0800 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 62 45 D1 C9 26 F9 95 06 D6 21 2A C8 8C 16 C0 8E X-Phone-Number: +30-94-6203692, +30-93-2886457 X-Address: Theodorou Kirinaiou 61, 26334 Patra, Greece Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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