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To: "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com>
Cc: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, qa@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: ISO Snapshots ? 
In-Reply-To: Message from "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com> 
   of "Mon, 06 Nov 2000 15:48:09 EST." <200011062048.eA6Km9t07735@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> 
Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2000 14:15:19 -0800
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From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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> Well, I'm just the lowly QA guy... What you're asking is a Release
> Engineering issue. I haven't heard of a test-ISO image yet, but I would
> strongly encourage one if there is time. It is a nice thing to be able to
> test the full set of install and package features before the release.

The problem is that the Alpha build is broken at the mometn and I have
no machine on which to build such a release.  I gave my own Alpha to
FreeBSD.org some time back and, in retrospect, that was a mistake
since I now have to rely on the kindness of others where any sort of
release engineering is concerned for the alpha.  I can't build an
alpha ISO image right now and beast.FreeBSD.org, the machine in
question, appears to be completely dead right now so even a remote
build is not an option.

- Jordan


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