Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 23:30:32 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: announce@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Summary of final changes to FreeBSD 2.2.7 Message-ID: <11967.901261832@time.cdrom.com>
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As I previously announced, there were some problems encountered with sysinstall in the 11th hour during our CDROM media testing which I fixed, rolled an updated boot.flp for, and uploaded to the master FTP site. I also fixed a problem I introduced at the last minute via a fumbled file copy which caused the XF86Setup utility to be replaced by the Japanese version (heh). In addition to this, I've just received updated distribution tarballs from The XFree86 Project which merge all of the 3.3.2.3 security updates directly into the "standard" tarballs rather than having an extra update file (X3323upd.tgz) which needed to be applied by hand. In other words, it's totally plug-and-play now. Just install XFree86 as you normally would to get the latest security fixes and the correct setup utility for your language. Since the X332*upd.tgz files are now obsolete, they have also been removed. My apologies to those who were momentarily inconvenienced by this, but c'mon, this is free software and a 24 hour turnaround time is pretty good in any part of this industry! :-) Comments in comp.unix.bsd.misc claiming that these problems made "2.2.7 totally unusable" are also as cruel and unnecessary as they inaccurate, and certain folks really need to get a grip on their prescription bottles if they think this hasn't happened before. Post- release updates are a fact of life and most folks probably aren't even aware of the fact that almost every release since 2.2.1 has had its boot media and various other bits updated at least 3 or 4 times over its lifecycle. We're still building up our testing resources here to the point where these problems can be even more quickly dealt with or avoided entirely, but it's still an undenyable fact of life that there's really just no testing like end-user testing since they simply push different buttons than we're used to pushing. :) That is also specifically why we do "early releases" on the net well before the CDs have even entered production rather than holding the network release back for the CD, as many other companies do. The pre-testing we get from this goes to make the CD, which is far less mutable than an FTP site, a far better release and well worth the occasional wear-and-tear on the front-line users, grumble about it though they occasionally might. The FreeBSD Project doesn't have a well-staffed testing department and don't have the $$$ to staff one yet, so in the meantime you folks will just have to do! :-) If you're running a mirror site or have downloaded a copy of 2.2.7, please verify the following checksums to make sure you've got the essential fixes from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.7-RELEASE/ MD5 (floppies/boot.flp) = 53ecc3f85bddee6a7a4388b7d6ef36f0 MD5 (XF86332/X332bin.tgz) = e2801288fb766d11ba523240518f429c MD5 (XF86332/X332lib.tgz) = 16927e4247848c6abbaf757c167d5f55 MD5 (XF86332/X332prog.tgz) = e358322d9ad03856273a63bbf3fddc4e MD5 (XF86332/X332set.tgz) = e0a341054c043ecba28d019bcd54bfb2 You can also delete XF86332/X332upd.tgz as it is no longer necessary. Thanks to all the users who threw themselves into initial release testing and took the time and care to send me careful bug reports. Thanks also to David Dawes of The XFree86 Project for providing the updated tarballs for XFree86 3.3.2.3 in time to make the CD. - Jordan This is the moderated mailing list freebsd-announce. The list contains announcements of new FreeBSD capabilities, important events and project milestones. See also the FreeBSD Web pages at http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-announce" in the body of the message
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