At 09:39 AM 4/18/2005, Steve Ames wrote: >Nothing stops someone other than the normal RE team from rolling something >release-esque (like a 4.X snapshot) and requesting that it be made available >for download on the FreeBSD sites.... or rolling your own release for >internal use.
Perhaps. But then, all of the software that recognizes "official" releases and does things like download ports, etc. won't work. >The RE team is already pretty booked for 5.X releases and, >possibly, the 6.0 release this year. I would really prefer to keep them on >that rather than delaying any of this for a 4.X release. That said a >4.11-20050501 (or thereabouts) snapshot/mini-release would probably keep >most people pretty happy while they move forward to 5.X. How about labeling a snapshot 4.11.5, then? With a rebuild of the ports, etc. that can be accessed online? (One of the big problems with using a snapshot is that there's no corresponding snapshot of the ports and packages online. And software like Colin's "FreeBSD-update" doesn't seem to know what to do with it.) >Lastly... 5.3 has been working brilliantly for me on every system I >installed it on. 5.4 is looking even better. I am finding them both to be slower than 4.x, and am still encountering some quirky hangs and some ports that won't build. YMMV, of course. >Any 4.X snapshot should be >considered a stopgap measure until you have time/resources to move onward to >5.4. I do consider 4.x to be a stopgap measure... but I am worried that 5.4-RELEASE might not have the speed, stability, and compatibility I need for production work and that I could be forced to keep using that stopgap until the next major release. I hope that this is not the case, but 5.4 is already at RC2. --Brett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
