Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 22:50:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin) Cc: bright@wintelcom.net (Alfred Perlstein), arch@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard), drosih@rpi.edu (Garance A Drosihn), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <200103162250.PAA17018@usr07.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010316122651.jhb@FreeBSD.org> from "John Baldwin" at Mar 16, 2001 12:26:51 PM
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> > So either quit doing '2' or use a variant of > > Terry's suggestion '-stable-rc' > > > > ~ % uname -srm > > FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE-RC i386 > > Except that it's not a real release candidate. Which is why we don't > just use -RC the whole time. -RC means that we would actually feel > confident releasing that exact source on the CD's as foo-RELEASE. > This is not true for foo-BETA, as it is a time for people to test > stuff out and spot things that need to be fixed. So what's the difference in tags between a release candidate and a beta? 8-). OH MY GOD! IT'S NO LONGER STABLE! WHAT _IS_ IT?!? BETA!?! GREAT CAESER'S GHOST! GET CLARK KENT IN HERE _NOW_!!! ..."Beta" is well known to be a synonym for "my cat wrote the floppy disk driver"... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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