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Date:      Thu, 31 Dec 1998 14:54:07 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Cc:        rcramer@sytex.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Final upgrades of tools in 2.2-STABLE (Re: Sendmail 8.9.1a )
Message-ID:  <199812310654.OAA89915@spinner.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:45:36 EST." <3.0.5.32.19981230194536.01b10900@granite.sentex.ca> 

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Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 07:27 PM 12/30/98 -0500, Richard Cramer wrote:
> >> 
> >> Considering that 2.2.8-STABLE has roughly two and a half weeks to
> >> live, bringing 8.9.1 into 2.2 would be silly. :)
> >
> >  What do you mean that 2.2.8-STABLE has two and a half weeks to live?
> 
> I think what is meant by the above is that 3.0 will spawn off into the new
> 'stable' and that the present 2.2.stable branch will only see critical bug
> fixes.

Well, I've been debating whether to bring up the issue of doing a couple 
of "final" major updates to certain components.

In particular:
 - sendmail 8.9.1(a)
 - bind 8.1.2
 - ipfw forward (transparent proxy support for ipfw).

On one hand, sendmail and bind8 are pretty much expected for line-of-fire
systems, and their import won't mess up a subsequent official release.  It 
will make life a bit easier for folks trying to use 2.2 systems in this 
role as they will stop having to fight with the build mechanism over which 
sendmail/bind it uses.

On the other, it messes up people tracking 2.2-stable just for minor bug 
fixes and probably wouldn't appreciate arriving at work in the morning and 
discovering they've now got to reconfigure sendmail and bind and that ipfw 
now gives parameter size errors.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>   Netplex Consulting
"No coffee, No workee!" :-)



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