Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 09:33:05 +0200 From: Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@urx.com> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>, Gavin Cameron <gavin@itworks.com.au>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: What does -RC mean? was: Re: Stable broken Message-ID: <20000720093305.A367@alaska.cert.siemens.de> In-Reply-To: <3976A60C.BE9DE986@urx.com>; from kstewart@urx.com on Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 12:11:08AM -0700 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007200001080.84615-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <3976A60C.BE9DE986@urx.com>
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 00:11:08 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Gavin Cameron wrote: > > > > > >From a cvsupped stable this morning I'm getting the following error in > > > /sbin/ipf > > > > Yes, and if you'd been following -stable you'd have saved yourself the > > trouble. I've committed one more patch which I hope will fix things now > > (for the record, it wasn't me who broke all this ;-) My buildworld is > > still underway, so I won't be sure for an hour or so. > > I thought the whole world was follow you all. Everytime you thought it > was fixed all of the US cvsup sites that I use hit their limit :). I > had never been rejected by cvsup7 until tonight. > This is due to the fact that the in ports tree the tag RELEASE_4_1_0 has been added and so cvsup takes much longer since each file in the ports tree has to be changed. Anyway: it is a little bit annoying that the -stable branch keeps to be broken especially since it is labeled as a "release candidate" (4.1-RC). To my understanding a "release candidate" should only be changed if serious problems are detected (and not, for example, to bring in ipfilter update to -current and -stable at the same time, without testing period in -current). I thought having a release candidate should ensure that the final release is as stable as can be. Every change to the release candidate would normally result in a restart of the testing period. Other oppinions out there? Regards -- Udo Schweigert, Siemens AG | Voice : +49 89 636 42170 ZT IK 3, Siemens CERT | Fax : +49 89 636 41166 D-81730 Muenchen / Germany | email : ust@cert.siemens.de PGP-2/5 fingerprint | D8 A5 DF 34 EC 87 E8 C6 E2 26 C4 D0 EE 80 36 B2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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