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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!ais.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!165.254.2.53!nonexistent.com!not-for-mail From: le@put.com (Louis Epstein) Subject: Re: New 3.0-SNAP [was Re: infinite loop in sysinstall] X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] X-Complaints-To: Email abuse@news2.new-york.net if this posting is inappropriate Lines: 27 Organization: Putnam Internet Services Message-ID: <E9vwLD.EFz@nonexistent.com> References: <5kije3$7ke$2@news9.gte.net> <336D27CA.167EB0E7@FreeBSD.org> <slrn5mupgs.1mq.pavanas@nomina.ccia.com> <33714FFB.446B9B3D@FreeBSD.org> X-Trace: 863131583 17903 le [165.254.191.2] X-Nntp-Posting-Host: main.put.com Date: Thu, 8 May 1997 22:46:25 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40590 Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : pavanas abludo incusus wrote: : > it was clearly apparent that any attempt to install either many packages : > or large packages (emacs etc) intially was doomed to failure. this is my : > first BSD experience (and it was an experience). i did have a problem : : OK, I fixed the bugger. : : The 3.0-970505-SNAP which is currently uploading (right now) to : ftp.freebsd.org has this problem fixed. This should also be considered : a replacement for 3.0-970502-SNAP since the upcoming SNAPshot CD from : Walnut Creek CDROM will also feature 3.0-970505-SNAP, and I don't like : there being any disparity between what you can get off the net and what : you can get from CD. : : Sorry for the inconvenience to those mirrors and end-users who wasted : their time downloading the 3.0-970502-SNAP only to run into the package : installer bug (and those users who didn't can probably just keep running : the 0502 SNAP; not *that* much changed in 3 days :-). I don't like : releasing snapshots this closely back-to-back but it's a lot better to : do that then make the CDROM users somehow "elite" in getting better bits : than what are available from the net. 428,502,505...is three SNAPs in a week a record? (I assume SNAP CD subscribers will only get 3.0 SNAPs now,even if there is a 2.2.x-SNAP release between RELENG and 2.2.5-RELEASE?)