4.8-RELEASE status

[Ken Mays]

Well, the FreeBSD website is updated to announce v4.8 to the world SOME of
the mirrors are updated with April 3, 2003 ISO images of the i386 dir. I
guess people want to know which mirrors are holding the OFFICIAL ISO
releases before they spend the time downloading them.

I downloaded the latest ISO but did note the announcements of KDE 3.1.1 and
Gnome 2.2.1 after the port freeze was lifted. Well, kudos for the fast port
upgraded of those products. I haven't loaded the official release yet but
will when I get home. I'll mainly review KDE 3.1.1 and Gnome 2.2.1 on
FreeBSD 4.8 versus how it looks on other platforms.

Thanks again. Please announce which mirrors carry the official release of
v4.8  (ftp1-14.freebsd.org). If you did already and I missed it, then
thanks! ;o)
~Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray Stokely" <murray at freebsd.org>
To: "Georgi Hristov" <tweaky_81 at yahoo.com>
Cc: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: 4.8-RELEASE status


> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:01:06PM -0800, Georgi Hristov wrote:
> > According to the post below, the problem is with the
> > image for the 1.44 floppy disk.  However, the is no
> > problem with the CD ISO images.
> > Is that correct?
>
> No.  One symptom of the problem related to the floppies.
>
> > Thus furure changes of the FreeBSD i386 CD ISO images
> > would not be made, and dowloading the ISOs currently
> > on the ftp server is OK.
> > Is that correct?
>
> Well, the main problem you may experience is difficulties with
> mergemaster(8) after you install the ISO you downloaded and then try
> to upgrade to a future version.  Your configuration files will lack
> detailed $FreeBSD$ strings and this will confuse mergemaster.  This is
> more trouble than it's worth though.
>
> The answer is simple.  Wait until the release is announced.
>
> > I am booting my system from CD and I really don't care
> > about the 1.44 floppies. I would like to know when the
> > CD images are going to be final and ready for release.
>
> As always, an email will be sent to announce at FreeBSD.org and the
> website will be updated.
>
>       - Murray
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