Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu>
Cc: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, pgsql-ports@postgreSQL.org, Postgres Hackers List <hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 1999-07-30T16:04:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > And I'll go one better: v6.5.x is not "dead", in the sense that Tom
> > Lane has been faithfully applying relevant patches for his fixes in
> > case a v6.5.2 is released. I'll guess that the Intel problems noted
> > with the main tree are not present in the v6.5.x tree, so any new
> > problems noted would be due to the upcoming Alpha patches. 
> 
> 	So, if I understand this correctly, the snapshot available on the
> FTP site is from the unstable tree, and there is a "stable 6.5.x" tree
> that can only be access by cvs{up}? And that this stable tree should not
> have quite as much delta from 6.5.1 as the snapshots do? Or did I miss
> something?

Yes.  This is correct.


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