Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2002 07:47:52 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "Kenneth Mays" <kmays2000@hotmail.com> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Viewpoint on 4.6RC4 Message-ID: <200206071447.g57ElqBZ001996@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F136kUuTwDRzXI00005774@hotmail.com> References: <LAW2-F136kUuTwDRzXI00005774@hotmail.com>
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If memory serves me right, "Kenneth Mays" wrote: > My only request is that we get to test these applications and > have some of them become the default applications in the base system: Hi Ken-- Thanks for the feedback, but it's way too late to be suggesting feature improvements for 4.6-RELEASE. The time to make suggestions like this is at the start of the release cycle, not the end. Please see the schedule for 4.6-RELEASE: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.6R/schedule.html The releases are not about making newer versions of programs available for testing. They're about making available the best-tested, most dependable code we're able to provide, within engineering and logistical constraints. If you want to test new stuff *and* you can deal with possible breakage, try -STABLE or -CURRENT. That being said, many of the programs you've listed are already in the ports collection that will ship with 4.6-RELEASE. They might not be identical to what might eventually show up in the base system (due to some changes, bugfixes, etc. that get made by our developers when integrating them). > 1. NTP 4.1.1a /usr/ports/net/ntp > 2. Sendmail 8.12.4 Very recent...I didn't even know this existed until a couple days back. It was added to the ports collection after the ports freeze. > 3. tar 1.13.25 or whatever is the most updated 'stable' version. /usr/ports/archivers/gtar > 4. GCC 2.95.3 & 3.1 selections in GUI (whatever is the most reliable) /usr/ports/lang/gcc295 /usr/ports/lang/gcc31 > 5. OpenSSH 3.2.3 and OpenSSL 0.9.6c/d That OpenSSH release is pretty recent. I don't think it made the ports freeze either. /usr/ports/security/openssl > 6. Samba 2.2.4 Not in the base system. /usr/ports/net/samba > 7. Nvidia recent drivers (test these with Xfree86 4.2.x) on Quadro/geforce > boards Don't know about these. If we ship them, it'd be in ports, not the base system. > I just notice that this was some of the current issues we are having besides > the basic/advanced base system testing. Some of this was already done but > listed here for reference. > > I know FreeBSD isn't intended to be a Solaris 9 for the free world (or is > it?!?) and I know we all have problems with hardware issues (the most > common). Is there an easier way to put all our issues together in a simple > doc to compile the information needed to make improvements for the 4.6 > release?!? I'm sorry, I don't understand these two paragraphs. Hope this helps, Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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