I'm waiting for the release of 4.9 to do some system upgrades (I've patched the machines in the meantime, but really need to do fresh installs.) How stable and polished is everything now? How long -- approximately -- has release been delayed from the original schedule? Just trying to plan ahead here. --Brett Glass
On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:35:55PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:> I'm waiting for the release of 4.9 to do some system upgrades (I've > patched the machines in the meantime, but really need to do fresh > installs.) How stable and polished is everything now? How long -- > approximately -- has release been delayed from the original schedule? > Just trying to plan ahead here.The approximate delay is two weeks. The PAE stability problems have been resolved, but now we are worried about some USB issues that have cropped up on the lists. We'll hopefully be in a position to release RC1 this weekend, depending on if we can get some more feedback on Ian's USB fix and some other issues. - Murray -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 155 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030927/31abb9e4/attachment.bin
Thank you! It looks as if I'll be installing 4.8-RELEASE-p10 on some servers, but bringing in the latest Sendmail -- and BIND 9 with Paul's patch for Verislime -- rather than using the versions of Sendmail and BIND in the base install. I'd go with djb for DNS, but the only override for Network Pollutions' jokers (oops, I mean wildcards) that's available for djb is a poor hack by Russ Nelson. It's dependent upon Verislime keeping the same IP address for their "sitefinder" server(s) for all time, and we cannot (of course) trust them to do that (or, in fact, trust them with anything). --Brett Glass At 09:54 AM 9/27/2003, Murray Stokely wrote:>On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:35:55PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: >> I'm waiting for the release of 4.9 to do some system upgrades (I've >> patched the machines in the meantime, but really need to do fresh >> installs.) How stable and polished is everything now? How long -- >> approximately -- has release been delayed from the original schedule? >> Just trying to plan ahead here. > >The approximate delay is two weeks. The PAE stability problems have >been resolved, but now we are worried about some USB issues that have >cropped up on the lists. We'll hopefully be in a position to release >RC1 this weekend, depending on if we can get some more feedback on >Ian's USB fix and some other issues. > > - Murray
On Saturday 27 September 2003 10:01 pm, Brett Glass wrote:> Thank you! It looks as if I'll be installing 4.8-RELEASE-p10 on > some servers, but bringing in the latest Sendmail -- and BIND > 9 with Paul's patch for Verislime -- rather than using the versions > of Sendmail and BIND in the base install.That's probably the best approach at this point. FWIW, FreeBSD-5 will be moving to BIND 9 in the system as soon as it is ready to import into the src tree. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com