Date: Sat, 16 Sep 1995 12:50:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: paul@FreeBSD.org, pete@sms.fi, davidg@Root.COM, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Which SUP files are available and where ? Message-ID: <199509161950.MAA01763@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199509161719.KAA05758@aslan.cdrom.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Sep 16, 95 10:19:18 am
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> > >Me too. I know it's more work for David (or someone anyway) but it allows > >bug smashing to be done over a longer period and also, I'm running some > >critical machines now and the sig 11 problem would have floored me but I'm > >happy to run -stable branches and put up with occasional glitches. It means > >we can run the next potential release in real environemnts for longer > >periods than we have in the past. > > > >-- > > Paul Richards, Netcraft Ltd. > > Internet: paul@netcraft.co.uk, http://www.netcraft.co.uk > > Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 1225 447500 (work) > > The only problem is that 2.2 may not be very "stable" at the time 2.1 > is released. We'll have to figure out a strategy for how we do the > switch over after a release so that people who are relying on -stable > don't get hosed. Don't point the sup file to the 2.2 branch until it has ``stabalized'', and then probably never. I did not have quite enough for thought about names when I set this up and the sup release should probably be called stable-2.1, thus you can change that to stable-2.2 and not hose over the users at end of life for 2.1 and point then cvs update the tree to the 2.2 branch. This can still be made to work, just change the name from ``stable'' to ``stable-2.2'' in the sup control files when that tree gets created ( I suggest YAST (Yet Another Source Tree) for this, as it might be nice to have critical bug fixes go to users via sup who are running 2.1R, just cut the cvs and sup updates down to once every 3 days or something slightly more reasonable for a maintainence mode tree. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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