The posting may have indeed been a "troll", but the points are relatively valid. My initial response (and the one in the FAQ) is always "Don't track stable if you're a newbie".
However, the release process (especially since FreeBSD 4.4) does appear to be sloppier than in years past. If this is due to the turnover in core, or the (relatively) large number of (new) committers, then I think the bulk of us "die-hards" are willing to wait. If this is a sign of things to come... -- John-David Childs (JC612) Enterprise Internet Solutions Systems Administration http://www.nterprise.net & Network Engineering 9616 Pecos St Thornton CO 80260 Replies to this address are /dev/nulled. Whois is your friend. On Mon, 2002-09-30 at 02:54, joe wrote: > Please don't feed the troll. > > -Joe > > On September 29, 2002 03:21 pm, SweeTLeaF wrote: > > Hello , > > > > What is the issue with Freebsd currently? I am trying to move from > > Open to Free and i have to say the experience to date is > > undesirable.....to say the least. I have tried several different > > releases this week and everyone has had issues but the most > > frustrating is the packages. The packages are not there, pkg_add > > wont work with the format when they are there ex. .tbz, packages > > not installing properly ie. not installing their deps and broken > > links and pipes and i mean the latter with regards to the .tgz format > > which is suppose to work. They did not have any packages for the > > release i am currently using ...trying to use (4.7rc2) so i was told > > to use the 4-stable packages. Today i took a peek @ the 4-stable and > > they appear to be missing just a directory link which gives ./dir not > > there errors when trying to access and.... they are once again in the > > damn .tgz format which does not work. This is very > > frustrating and time consuming. I truly hope that the project is > > not normally this sloppy and undocumented, as i continue to look > > forward to my initial goal. > > > > ---------------------------------------- > Joe > ----------------------------------------- > We have been silent witnesses of evil deeds... > Will our inward power of resistance > be strong enough for us to find our way back? > - Dietrich Bonhoeffer > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
