Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:04:57 +0100 From: Daniel Gerzo <danger@rulez.sk> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <1113911942.20050321210457@rulez.sk> In-Reply-To: <20050321030332.GA46390@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <20050321030332.GA46390@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu>
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Hello Ken, Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:03:32 AM, you wrote: > Announcement > ------------ > The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability > of FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 5.4 Release > Cycle. > This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly Snapshots, > for this BETA there are no packages on the CDs at all so the install of > things like perl from the installation media will fail. As with the > Snapshots there is however a full ports tarball it offers to install > and you can use that to install the ports (or just download the packages > you want from the FTP mirror sites). The Release Candidates posted > through the next few weeks will contain the package sets. > Availability > ------------ > The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror > sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html > -ken ok, since there is official anouncement and there are already posted some information to news servers like osnews, i think we should update newvers.sh so people who download BETA1 build wouldn't be confused with -PRERELEASE branch. here is simple diff: --- newvers.sh.orig Mon Mar 21 20:44:45 2005 +++ newvers.sh Mon Mar 21 20:45:31 2005 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ TYPE="FreeBSD" REVISION="5.4" -BRANCH="PRERELEASE" +BRANCH="BETA1" RELEASE="${REVISION}-${BRANCH}" VERSION="${TYPE} ${RELEASE}" -- Best regards +----------==/\/\==----------+ FreeBSD | DanGer <danger@wilbury.sk> | (__) The | DanGer@IRCnet ICQ261701668 | \\\'',) Power | http://danger.homeunix.org | \/ \ ^ To +----------==\/\/==----------+ .\._/_) Serve [ (IF IsStolen(Tagline) THEN Insult(Thief); ]
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