FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1 Available
Daniel Gerzo
danger at rulez.sk
Mon Mar 21 12:06:01 PST 2005
Hello Ken,
Monday, March 21, 2005, 4:03:32 AM, you wrote:
> Announcement
> ------------
> The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is pleased to announce the availability
> of FreeBSD 5.4-BETA1, which marks the beginning of the FreeBSD 5.4 Release
> Cycle.
> This BETA1 release is in the same basic format as the Monthly Snapshots,
> for this BETA there are no packages on the CDs at all so the install of
> things like perl from the installation media will fail. As with the
> Snapshots there is however a full ports tarball it offers to install
> and you can use that to install the ports (or just download the packages
> you want from the FTP mirror sites). The Release Candidates posted
> through the next few weeks will contain the package sets.
> Availability
> ------------
> The BETA1 ISOs and FTP support are available on most of the FreeBSD Mirror
> sites. A list of the mirror sites is available here:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html
> -ken
ok, since there is official anouncement and there are already posted
some information to news servers like osnews, i think we should update
newvers.sh so people who download BETA1 build wouldn't be confused
with -PRERELEASE branch.
here is simple diff:
--- newvers.sh.orig Mon Mar 21 20:44:45 2005
+++ newvers.sh Mon Mar 21 20:45:31 2005
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
TYPE="FreeBSD"
REVISION="5.4"
-BRANCH="PRERELEASE"
+BRANCH="BETA1"
RELEASE="${REVISION}-${BRANCH}"
VERSION="${TYPE} ${RELEASE}"
--
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