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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.bugs:2692 comp.os.386bsd.questions:14891 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!cronkite.nersc.gov!dancer.ca.sandia.gov!overload.lbl.gov!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uunet!fi.gs.com!qsss08!avraad From: avraad@qssw04.qsss08.gs.com (David Avraamides) Subject: Re: FreeBSD2.0R install glitches -- patched floppies coming shortly!! In-Reply-To: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie's message of 29 Nov 1994 14:53:00 GMT Message-ID: <AVRAAD.94Dec1085521@qssw04.qsss08.gs.com> Sender: news@qsss08.gs.com Nntp-Posting-Host: qssw04 Organization: Goldman, Sachs & Co. References: <3bea13$881@shore.shore.net> <JKH.94Nov29145300@whisker.hubbard.ie> Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 13:55:21 GMT Lines: 30 >>>>> Jordan K Hubbard writes: # I'm just coordinating the re-rolling of the 2 boot floppies with the # release coordinator (Poul-Henning Kamp) so as not to step on his toes, # and one of us will be announcing the new floppies (in the # 2.0-RELEASE/floppies/newer directory) shortly. # # These are the only changes I intend to put in for 2.0. The fixes for # ppp and some of Bruce's general reorganization will have to wait until # 2.1 or for an interim, re-rolled 2.x release (2.0.5 has been discussed). # # We can't simply re-roll 2.0 or our support situation would turn into a # nightmare.. Anything more than fixes to the install will require # bumping the release number, and as our release engineer hasn't # finished re-introducing himself to his wife yet, this is just going to # have to wait for a little while! :-) I was just curious - is the FreeBSD development team planning on releasing fixes as patches or as completely new releases? I'm new to FreeBSD so I don't know what you've done in the past, but if its at all feasible, it would be nice to just apply patches periodically, instead of completely installing a new version. I know as soon as I upgraded to 2.0R, I started "tweaking" my system, so I'd have to go all through that again (or write a clever perl script :-) -- David Avraamides Goldman, Sachs & Co. (212) 357-1346 avraad@qsss08.gs.com