Sendmail 8.13.4?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Mar 30 07:22:14 PST 2005


In the last episode (Mar 30), Mark said:
> > In the last episode (Mar 30), Mark said:
> > > Where is Sendmail 8.13.4? I cannot find it in the ports, and it
> > > isn't at:
> > > 
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/mail/sendmail/
> > 
> > I think it's probably because 8.13.4 was released on the 27th, and
> > the ports tree was frozen on the 21st for the upcoming release of
> > FreeBSD 5.4.
> 
> Thank you for your reply; sounds like a reasonable explanation. :)
> How long is it going to be frozen, though? I saw that FreeBSD
> 5.4-BETA1 release is available since March 20.

Ports have to be frozen in advance because it takes such a long time to
build the set of packages.  If there is a critical fix in 8.13.4, it
may get committed despite the freeze.  You'll have to check with the
maintainer though.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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