From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 7 20:44:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E95F71065728 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:44:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from kagate.punkt.de (kagate.punkt.de [217.29.33.131]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EC4A8FC16 for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 20:44:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hausen@punkt.de) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (hugo10.ka.punkt.de [10.0.0.110]) by kagate1.punkt.de with ESMTP id m57Ki9iO065390; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:44:09 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hugo10.ka.punkt.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m57Ki9xg039323; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:44:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93@hugo10.ka.punkt.de) Received: (from ry93@localhost) by hugo10.ka.punkt.de (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) id m57Ki8gJ039322; Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:44:08 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ry93) Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2008 22:44:08 +0200 From: "Patrick M. Hausen" To: Jo Rhett Message-ID: <20080607204408.GA39103@hugo10.ka.punkt.de> References: <4846E14C.709@FreeBSD.org> <48472CCF.8080101@FreeBSD.org> <4847EF62.1070709@rxsec.com> <4847F814.10409@FreeBSD.org> <4847FB1D.1050400@rxsec.com> <4847FFDE.8000209@FreeBSD.org> <48480473.3010009@rxsec.com> <484808B8.8070506@FreeBSD.org> <5CCF0D6E-56C1-4EBD-B8A6-955311F7851E@netconsonance.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5CCF0D6E-56C1-4EBD-B8A6-955311F7851E@netconsonance.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: Kris Kennaway , Doug Barton , FreeBSD Stable , Chris Marlatt Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:44:12 -0000 Hello, On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:28:21PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote: > In rereading my quotes I may have not been clear on something. The vast > majority of these bugs have already been fixed. ("not in a state that needs > help identifying" was what I said trying to cover both that and known bugs > without a fix yet) > > However, the fixes are not available in a -RELEASE version of the operating > system. Yes. So what? Upgrading your systems to 6.3 takes _precisely_ the same amount of work as upgrading to "6-STABLE as of today 00:00 GMT". You may want to pick a different point of time, but it really doesn't matter, because a release _is_ just a CVS branch created at a certain time. > This is why EoLing 6.2 and forcing people to upgrade to a release > with lots of known issues is a problem. People who have issues with RELENG_6_3 should upgrade to RELENG_6 which is perfectly supported. Kind regards, Patrick -- punkt.de GmbH * Kaiserallee 13a * 76133 Karlsruhe Tel. 0721 9109 0 * Fax 0721 9109 100 info@punkt.de http://www.punkt.de Gf: Jürgen Egeling AG Mannheim 108285