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Date:      Mon, 2 Dec 2002 22:22:44 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
Cc:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>, re-builders@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New aliases for release-building
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021202222200.61695F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021203030700.GB84622@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>

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On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 02:01:33PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> > 
> > In a nutshell, there is now one alias per Tier 1 platform (plus various 
> > name variations), plus a master re-builders alias that sends to all of 
> > the platform aliases.
> 
> Bummer. I thought ia64 was still tier-2. I had plans to use it to get
> away with future ABI breakages. Ah well... :-) 

Nope, IA64 is still officially Tier II, but I know we'd all like it to get
to be Tier I as soon as possible.  Even as Tier II, we can cut a release,
and my understanding is that this would be very helpful for a variety of
reasons, including political ones.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories



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