Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

Julian H. Stacey wrote:
>>It is my great pleasure and privilege to announce the availability of
>>FreeBSD 2.2.9-RELEASE.  This release is the culmination of SEVENTY-SEVEN
>>months of tireless work.
> 
> 
> I was away over 1st April, & came back to a backlog of mail when
> 1st April was no longer current, so didn't notice date for a few seconds,
> & found the announcement rather weird but not necessarily totaly daft ;-) ...
> 	FreeBSD-2.X is really obsolete, but some of us occasionaly
> 	keep/ resuscitate obsolete hardware (eg for vintage purposes
> 	http://vcfe.org/E/ ),  one example: between FreeBSD-2 & 3
> 	I think support for some old 8 bit scsi controllers was
> 	dumped, so old software can be attractive.
> 
> So I checked on FTP site: no CHECKSUM.MD5, just a single file, 142 Meg
> ( 142 186 496 )
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/2.2.9/2.2.9-RELEASE.iso
> 
> That .iso contains 620 files, I didnt try running it [yet .. maybe]
> If it's some silly spoof, its quite elaborately big, if so, I'd
> suggest reduce to a README to save a lot of mirror space & bandwidth.
> Either way, a CHECKSUM.MD5 would be good.
> 

The ISO image is valid, but we didn't do things like bump the version
numbers, tag CVS, or build ports.  I hand-edited the .TXT files
available from FTP, but the same files in the ISO are the stock 2.2.8
ones.  However, the release was built from the RELENG_2_2 tree, so it
actually does incorporate the small handful of changes that went in
after the 2.2.8 tag was laid down.  It was a fun little trip in the
Way-Back machine, and the announcement email was meant to poke some fun
at that.

Scott