Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 09:55:21 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@flat.berklix.net> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released Message-ID: <20060407165521.8B78C45046@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:04:15 MDT." <443600DF.10602@samsco.org>
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> Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:04:15 -0600 > From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Scott Long wrote: > > 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 1st April was no longer current, so didn't notice date for a few seconds, 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 > > Btw, Ruslan Ermilov was the creative force behind all of this, he > deserves 99% of the credit. While I'm sure Ruslan was involved, I suspect that the real credit belongs to Sniffy The Wonder Cat. I know that my cat, Sam, has had input on a lot of my work, but his code seems even less well structured than mine and is very poorly formatted. Clearly Sniffy is much better at it. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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