Date: Sat, 30 Jan 1999 14:19:16 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, rcramer@sytex.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What is the Final EOL Disposition of v2.2.8? Message-ID: <199901302119.OAA07517@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <3419.917248557@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 24, 99 11:15:57 pm"
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As I recall, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > That sounds like a good idea. We may also want to make a 2.2S CDROM > which contains the very last of everything done on the 2.2 branch. > From what I've heard so far, there would be demand for something > containing the very last packages/XFree86/2.2 snap/... for the branch > and if we needed to go to 6 CDs on it, we could even do that if that > meant making the last CD distro a truly comprehensive "cap" to the 2.2 > branch. What do people think? Speaking for only myself (after all, who else could I speak for?)... I got one 2.2.8-RELEASE as part of the subscription, and bought an extra one. I'm not too concerned about the changes between then and 2.2-STABLE, since they can be recreated through CVS. I'm more interested in snapshotting those areas that don't use CVS branches, like the ports collection. I worry that bit-rot will set in, since ports are no longer required to build under 2.2. The a.out to ELF transition doesn't help the bit-rot concerns. As RW pointed out, however, a big exposure is in the distfiles that go with the ports. I'm not sure you're even allowed to collect and distribute all of them. I have a couple of machines that are now at 2.1-STABLE, and I can assure you adding a port I don't already have has become quite difficult. I just don't want to get into that same space regarding 2.2. Anyway, I'd be happiest with a CD-ROM set that contained an installable 2.2-STABLE (2.2.9?), the complete ports collection, and the distfiles that go with the ports. I wouldn't need the live filesystem. I'd buy however many CD's that took. Also documented should be the URLs to any distfiles unable to be aggregated onto the CD's, so I could fetch them myself and archive them here. That'd be worth, oh say, $75 to me. > - Jordan -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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