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#! rnews 1348 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!newspump.sol.net!howland.erols.net!nntp.crl.com!news3.crl.com!nexp.crl.com!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.2 kernel reports RELEASE Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:30:41 -0800 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 16 Message-ID: <32B9FA51.63DECDAD@FreeBSD.org> References: <599p4i$rdm@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) To: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32967 H. Jared Agnew wrote: > I have a few questions, the first is, why does 2.2's kernel report it as > RELEASE? Is this a mistake, or because it will be an easy transition? It's lying, but this close to the actual release date (a month away) there's no point in changing it back. > The second question is when 2.2 is eventually released, will the ctm delta's > be available all the way through, or will one have to get all the source? There will be an unbroken stream of 2.2 branch CTM deltas available all the way, yes. -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project