Subject: Re: SUP/FTP tree of NetBSD-current/-release will switch on Dec 15
To: None <jchacon@genuity.net>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 12/13/2000 15:50:54
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 jchacon@genuity.net wrote:

: The release branch for 1.5 was 6 months in length...During which time
: real bugs did creep in and/or were found as side effects and had to get fixed.
:
: This might work for X.Y.Z releases but the mainline releases even in good cases
: take a while to cook and a new user coming in and supping -release would
: be reasonably surprised to possibly get something labeled 1.6Alpha or something
: similiar.

Third time in this thread:  Sup is not meant to be used for tracking
explicit releases, period.  If this fact needs better _documentation_, I'm
quite happy to provide it.

If you want explicit releases, you need to get a tarball of *officially
released sources*, or use anoncvs to pull an explicit CVS tag.

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