Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:48:13 -0400 (EDT) From: jack <jacko@xtalwind.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I'm re-rolling the 2.1.5 release. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960716002716.368E-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <18266.837486853.1@time.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> I totally hate this, but at this point I've got little choice.
> For one thing, as everyone probably already knows, we broke the 3c509
> driver badly with that 11th hour patch and people have been
> complaining all over the place about it. I could roll another boot
> floppy, but that wouldn't cover the GENERIC kernel in the bindist nor
> would the srcdist match. It'd be a mess.
> For another thing, it appears that I've totally broken CD
> installation.
If it's any consolation, I had a flawless PPP update install with the
boot.flp.
> I'll be setting the permissions on the 2.1.5-RELEASE directory on
> wcarchive to 700 until the new release is in place - please simply
> pretend to yourselves that you never even saw my first announcement. :-)
> If it's any consolation, this aborted release did point up some
> crucial problems and now 2.1.5-RELEASE mark II will at least be that
> much the better for us having found them.
So what should I put in ver.c before recompiling a kernel?
Almost-2.1.5-RELEASE,
Not-Quite-2.1.5-RELEASE, or
2.1.5-RELEASE-Limited.Collector's.Edition ;-}
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