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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Mirror sites for FTP Uneven!!
Date: 9 Oct 1995 09:24:54 +0100
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Louis Epstein <lepslog@j51.com> wrote:

>: I think once that 2.1 will be born, there's no longer a need for
>: 1.1.5.1.
>
>So it's taken that long to get back to "rock solid"?

"get forward", not "get back".

Remember, this is an entirely different code base.  Unfortunately:),
1.1.5.1 has been reaching such a stability that it was really hard to
beat it.

>Still wondering what D-day for 2.1R is...

There've been strong intentions for Oct 8, but the (internal)
announcement has been too tight in time, so the ports are still being
rebuilt now.  This will take some time due to the huge amount (several
hundred).  Some of the distfiles might have been disappeared, so minor
tweaking and small corrections have to be done to ensure that every
tiny bit that would be pressed onto the CD will be consistent.
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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