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Date:      Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:46:27 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Joe Rhett <jrhett@svcolo.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, current <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fast releases demand binary updates.. (Was: Release schedule for 2006)
Message-ID:  <20051217234627.GB68713@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20051217220021.GB93998@svcolo.com>
References:  <43A266E5.3080103@samsco.org> <20051217220021.GB93998@svcolo.com>

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On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 02:00:21PM -0800, Joe Rhett wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:04:05AM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
> > There will be three FreeBSD 6 releases in 2006.
>=20
> While this is nice, may I suggest that it is time to put aside/delay one
> release cycle and come up with a binary update mechanism supported well by
> the OS?  Increasing the speed of releases is good.  Increasing the number
> of deployed systems out of date because there are no easy binary upgrade
> mechanisms is bad.
>=20
> It has been bad, it's getting worse.

Suggestions are nice, but who do you think will work on solving this?

Kris

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