What happened with 5.1-RELEASE?

[Thomas Elliott]

Sorry if I rattled your cage Scott - it wasnt intentional.

I was only saying that I found it strange that it appeared, then dissapeared
within the timespace that it took me to download the first cd.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Lambert" <lambert at lambertfam.org>
To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 10:56 PM
Subject: Re: What happened with 5.1-RELEASE?


> Why do we have to go through this for every fscking release?
>
> A release is not a release until the Release Engineering team sends the
> announcement.
>
> A release is not a release until the Release Engineering team sends the
> announcement.
>
> A release is not a release until the Release Engineering team sends the
> announcement.
>
> A release is not a release until the Release Engineering team sends the
> announcement.
>
> They always upload the RELEASE images a day or two ahead of making the
> announcement to allow them to be distributed to all of the FTP mirrors
> *before* the masses start scrambling to grab it.
>
> The only thing strange going on is a bunch of premature downloading and
> jumping to conclusions.
>
> Personally, I think someone should create a read protected directory
> named 6.5-RELEASE.  Maybe with an ISO of the latest release that is
> modified to load a graphic that tells people to stop being so grabby.
>
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:09:44PM +0100, Thomas Elliott wrote:
> > Just to add to the confusion, I snagged a copy of 5.1 disc1 from
> > mirror.ac.uk (my local mirror) - when I went to download disc2 - the 5.1
> > folder had gone - leaving just RC1.
> > Something very strange going on methinks.
> > --
> > Tom
> > tom at tomelliott.net
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "stuart nichols" <fbsdstable at cobble.capnet.state.tx.us>
> > To: <    >
> > Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 9:40 PM
> > Subject: What happened with 5.1-RELEASE?
> >
> >
> > > There used to be messages on this list around the time
> > > of a new release, letting people know what was happening,
> > > but that isn't happening this time.  What list should the
> > > following question be directed to, if not this one?
> > >
> > > My auto-download program snagged a copy of the 5.1-RELEASE
> > > install ISO yesterday morning, but no release announcement
> > > was made.  The directories exist on most, if not all of the
> > > ftpNN.freebsd.org servers, but the directories are protected,
> > > and the one I got it from changed to disallow further downloads.
> > >
> > > Did something go wrong with 5.1-RELEASE that required a re-work?
> > > The CD boots as 5.1-RELEASE, and loads normally.  There are no
> > > cvsup deltas for RELENG_5_1, so no changes have been made
> > > available yet.
> > >
> > > What happened, and is there some horrible problem with the
> > > 5.1-RELEASE ISO I got that means I shouldn't load it?  (Too
> > > late for that now.)  It seems to be 5.1-RC1 with little if
> > > anything different except for a re-name of the version.
> > >
> > > stu
> > >
> > > stuart nichols
> > > CAPnet Network Operations
> > >
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