Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 Released

Scott Long wrote:
> 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 1st April was no longer current, so didn't notice date for a few seconds,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

Btw, Ruslan Ermilov was the creative force behind all of this, he 
deserves 99% of the credit.

Scott