Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 14:31:19 -0700 (PDT) From: "Steven G. Kargl" <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: dave@kachina.jetcafe.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sup-ing stable Message-ID: <199608162131.OAA08745@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608162040.NAA01407@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at "Aug 16, 96 01:40:05 pm"
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I 've lost track of the attributions. >> >>> It's still the ``STABLE'' branch, but PAST the 2.1.5 release tag... >>> ``STABLE'' == the cvs RELENG_2_1_0 tag, so I don't want to here the >>> cvs tag confustion again please... >> >> Are people still patching this tree? I thought you guys wanted to >> freeze this code. > > Yes, I am still patching this tree, and if the FreeBSD project kills the > tree I will be setting up my own area to maintain this realease. With > several 100 customers dependant upon being able to run this and have > bugs fixed it would be too important to me to have support for it totally > dropped. If I have to go to a ``patchkit'' to do it, I will. > FreeBSD Org does send patches to CERT for security related problems. Supping the -stable branch to acquire these patches is preferable over a possible manual patching from the CERT announcement. The -stable branch should be a maintenance branch. No new features. No new drivers. Just fixes. $0.02 -- Steve
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