Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:44:08 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" <hausen@punkt.de> To: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Chris Marlatt <cmarlatt@rxsec.com> Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <20080607204408.GA39103@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> In-Reply-To: <5CCF0D6E-56C1-4EBD-B8A6-955311F7851E@netconsonance.com> References: <4846E14C.709@FreeBSD.org> <AC78CAC0-BA7C-4A20-9BEE-E7E37FD225E7@netconsonance.com> <48472CCF.8080101@FreeBSD.org> <4847EF62.1070709@rxsec.com> <4847F814.10409@FreeBSD.org> <4847FB1D.1050400@rxsec.com> <4847FFDE.8000209@FreeBSD.org> <48480473.3010009@rxsec.com> <484808B8.8070506@FreeBSD.org> <5CCF0D6E-56C1-4EBD-B8A6-955311F7851E@netconsonance.com>
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Hello,
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:28:21PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> In rereading my quotes I may have not been clear on something. The vast
> majority of these bugs have already been fixed. ("not in a state that needs
> help identifying" was what I said trying to cover both that and known bugs
> without a fix yet)
>
> However, the fixes are not available in a -RELEASE version of the operating
> system.
Yes. So what?
Upgrading your systems to 6.3 takes _precisely_ the same amount
of work as upgrading to "6-STABLE as of today 00:00 GMT".
You may want to pick a different point of time, but it really
doesn't matter, because a release _is_ just a CVS branch created
at a certain time.
> This is why EoLing 6.2 and forcing people to upgrade to a release
> with lots of known issues is a problem.
People who have issues with RELENG_6_3 should upgrade to RELENG_6
which is perfectly supported.
Kind regards,
Patrick
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