Re: stable/9 still looking for packages at 9-current

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 01:16:59PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> wrote:
> >> On 9. Jan 2012, at 01:04 , Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> >> So you are saying that FreeBSD is currently providing on
> >> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub images tagged as being "9.0 RELEASE" (with
> >> checksum provided), in a `releases' directory, which are not actually
> >> release images per-se ?
> >
> > Excellent! =A0You've shown the ability to understand flat, declarative,
> > sentences that have no qualifying phrases.
> >
> FWIW, this was more a sarcastic sentence pointing out that FreeBSD is
> currently officially distributing non-released build in a directory
> which might leads users to consider this is the official release, thus
> misleading them.

That build is intended to become the official release unless some
last-minute showstopper problem is found. (Unlikely, but has happened befor=
e.)

The build is being distributed in advance of the official announcement
to make sure it is available on all mirrors at the moment the
announcement is made.

--=20
<Insert your favourite quote here.>
Erik Trulsson
ertr1013@student.uu.se
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