From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 21 17:44:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from midway.uchicago.edu (midway.uchicago.edu [128.135.12.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB03137B407 for ; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 17:44:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Yggdrasil (adsl-68-20-32-187.dsl.chcgil.ameritech.net [68.20.32.187]) by midway.uchicago.edu (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g5M0iTX8027106; Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:44:29 -0500 (CDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Syphers Reply-To: dsyphers@uchicago.edu To: William Palfreman , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATA fix in RELENG_4_6? Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 19:44:42 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.1 References: <20020621161230.M611-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com> In-Reply-To: <20020621161230.M611-100000@bell.lan.palfreman.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200206211944.42431.dsyphers@uchicago.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 21 June 2002 10:32 am, William Palfreman wrote: > I have "*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_4_6" in my stable supfile. > > I know the ATA/ATAPI fix has gone into the RELENG_4 branch. Has it > gone into 4_6 too? > > I don't want to track _4 anymore partly because it was too unnerving > having things like huge changes in the mail system appear between 4.5 > and 4.6. I will be protecting myself from such big changes by following > 4_6 instead now, won't I? You'll be protecting yourself from non-security related bugfixes, too. As far as I know, the ATA fix probably won't be going into 4_6, but it's an issue for the security team to decide. If you read UPDATING, then you know about big changes before they happen to your system... and that's half the battle. -David -- Everyone who believes in telekinesis, raise my hand... Astronomy and Astrophysics Center The University of Chicago To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message