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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!root From: "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why was 2.1.5R pulled back and re-released? Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:41:10 -0700 Organization: Applied Physics Lab Lines: 27 Message-ID: <31EE8546.167EB0E7@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <4sle07$8iq@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us> NNTP-Posting-Host: troutmask.apl.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) Charles F. Randall wrote: > > A few days ago, there was a file named README.2.1.5 in /pub/FreeBSD on > ftp.freebsd.org that stated something like (from memory), "The > permissions on the 2.1.5 directory have been changed to 700 on > purpose. A few bugs were found just after the release and we've > decided to fix them quickly and re-release." > > It would appear that it has now been re-released. What were the > reasons for doing this? > A few bugs were found that effected the ability to install on certain popular hardware. > -Randy > > -- > Charles F. Randall E-mail: crandall@dmacc.cc.ia.us > UNIX Systems Programmer Voice: (515) 965-7057 > Perl Hacker - Powered by FreeBSD! FAX: (515) 965-7305 -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~kargl/sgk.html