Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:48:13 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jacko@xtalwind.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm re-rolling the 2.1.5 release. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960716002716.368E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <18266.837486853.1@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > I totally hate this, but at this point I've got little choice. > For one thing, as everyone probably already knows, we broke the 3c509 > driver badly with that 11th hour patch and people have been > complaining all over the place about it. I could roll another boot > floppy, but that wouldn't cover the GENERIC kernel in the bindist nor > would the srcdist match. It'd be a mess. > For another thing, it appears that I've totally broken CD > installation. If it's any consolation, I had a flawless PPP update install with the boot.flp. > I'll be setting the permissions on the 2.1.5-RELEASE directory on > wcarchive to 700 until the new release is in place - please simply > pretend to yourselves that you never even saw my first announcement. :-) > If it's any consolation, this aborted release did point up some > crucial problems and now 2.1.5-RELEASE mark II will at least be that > much the better for us having found them. So what should I put in ver.c before recompiling a kernel? Almost-2.1.5-RELEASE, Not-Quite-2.1.5-RELEASE, or 2.1.5-RELEASE-Limited.Collector's.Edition ;-} ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ jacko@xtalwind.net Finger jacko@onyx.xtalwind.net for my PGP key Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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