Any vital post 6.0 fixes gone into stable ?

Holger Kipp hk at alogis.com
Tue Dec 13 06:58:25 PST 2005


On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:21:29PM +0100, Ronald Klop wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 16:03:59 +0100, Pete French  
> <petefrench at ticketswitch.com> wrote:
> 
> >I'm about to start installing a whole new set of machines for production
> >use with 6.0 on them. Normally I would just use -RELEASE, but as this is
> >a dot-nought release I was wondering if there is anything vital which
> >has been commited to stable, and if I should therefore sun the machines
> >under stable instead. I havent seen anything go past which I regard as
> >critical, though somebody did make a mention of some arp problem
> >being fixed, which I could find a reference to the original problem for.
> >
> >Anything I need to know ? Am running release on a couple of machines here
> >and it works fine for me so far, but always good to get other opinions.
> 
> Try downloading an iso and search for release notes in it (RELNOTES.txt or  
> something like that.)
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/Dec_2005/

I do not know if this is relevant for you, but if you want to use
mgetty with 6-STABLE (including 6.0-RELEASE), you will have a few
problems.
See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/87208

I don't know if or when this will be fixed, though.

Regards,
Holger



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