Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 18:38:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0_STABLE Broken (was Re: FTP proxy without translation no longer working? (fwd)) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0005211834380.11142-100000@barracuda.aquarium.rtci.com> In-Reply-To: <20000521190831.A30246@mithrandr.moria.org>
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> On Mon 2000-05-22 (02:26), Darren Reed wrote: > > Okay. So you want to play "pass the buck". Backing out that change > > (which does not fix *any* bugs!) will "fix the problem". As it is, > > you've introduced a _new feature_ to the _STABLE branch and broken > > something. In my book, that's two crosses you've marked up: changes > > to _STABLE must not break it and new features must be extensively > > tested in -current before committing to a release branch. > > I agree. We have to test the change in -CURRENT before committing it to > -STABLE, and thus it is probably the best move to try back it out, since > it should be early enough for there not be too many conflicts. It's not > at all obvious whether the move to -STABLE was in error - it may just be > an indication of the lack of ipfilter users who happened to check out > -CURRENT in the time it was in use. > While I do use it under -CURRENT, I think this bug was a little hard to catch because typically people who deploy ipfilter as a full gateway (with FTP Proxying), use -STABLE, since it's pretty important to them getting on the net. BTW, is anyone looking at bringing ipfilter up to 3.3.13 in FreeBSD? A lot of good hotfixes are in there. I'm not sure if ipfilter 3.4.X has been banged at enough to MFC it for quite a while though. Lest we reproduce breakages like the one above :) Can't always find everything in testing :) --happy user of ipfilter for the last two years. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Thomas R. Stromberg Senior Systems Administrator : > smtp[tstromberg@rtci.com] Research Triangle Commerce, Inc. : > http[afterthought.org] pots[1.919.657.1317] : > irc[helixblue] FreeBSD Contributor, Perl Hacker : ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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