From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 05:55:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A703B16A403 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 05:55:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BABC43D46 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 05:55:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k375tg68006258; Thu, 6 Apr 2006 23:55:43 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <4435FED7.8080201@samsco.org> Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:55:35 -0600 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051230 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <200604062326.k36NQxL5037240@fire.jhs.private> In-Reply-To: <200604062326.k36NQxL5037240@fire.jhs.private> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 05:55:52 -0000 Julian H. Stacey wrote: >>It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of >>FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE. This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN >>months of tireless work. > > > I was away over 1st April, & came back to a backlog of mail when > 1st April was no longer current, so didn't notice date for a few seconds, > & found the announcement rather weird but not necessarily totaly daft ;-) ... > FreeBSD-2.X is really obsolete, but some of us occasionaly > keep/ resuscitate obsolete hardware (eg for vintage purposes > http://vcfe.org/E/ ), one example: between FreeBSD-2 & 3 > I think support for some old 8 bit scsi controllers was > dumped, so old software can be attractive. > > So I checked on FTP site: no CHECKSUM.MD5, just a single file, 142 Meg > ( 142 186 496 ) > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/2.2.9/2.2.9-RELEASE.iso > > That .iso contains 620 files, I didnt try running it [yet .. maybe] > If it's some silly spoof, its quite elaborately big, if so, I'd > suggest reduce to a README to save a lot of mirror space & bandwidth. > Either way, a CHECKSUM.MD5 would be good. > The ISO image is valid, but we didn't do things like bump the version numbers, tag CVS, or build ports. I hand-edited the .TXT files available from FTP, but the same files in the ISO are the stock 2.2.8 ones. However, the release was built from the RELENG_2_2 tree, so it actually does incorporate the small handful of changes that went in after the 2.2.8 tag was laid down. It was a fun little trip in the Way-Back machine, and the announcement email was meant to poke some fun at that. Scott