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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Why was 2.1.5R pulled back and re-released? Date: 21 Jul 1996 08:43:36 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4ssqjo$5k8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4sle07$8iq@infoborg.dmacc.cc.ia.us> <31EE8546.167EB0E7@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <mandrews.837897387@bob.wittenberg.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E mandrews@bob.Wittenberg.EDU (Mike Andrews) wrote: > Is this the only difference in the "updated" 2.1.5, or were there any other > bugs fixed? . the 3c509 bug has been fixed (sigh, this was mea culpa, i should not trust the Usenet users that much :), . the vx driver has been included, against David's better judgement as he noted in the commit message, but to make the system agree with the already printed documentation and release notes, . the CDROM installation was found to be broken and has been fixed (serious, but certainly not of your concern), . and it was found too late that the ports and packages were now too fat for the first CDROM, so the installation program had to be taught to pick it off the second CD. So for you, i think it's only the 3c509 driver that is important. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)