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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hey all, </FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">First, let me thank everyone at blastwave for their fine contribution to all Solaris admins everywhere!</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I was curious as to what the timeline/procedure/whatyacallit is for moving packages into the stable tree. Is it manual, a quarterly release process, or something else?</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have been dabbling with pkgsrc from netbsd a little bit, and I like how their release team puts out quarterly releases of the package tree. This allows an admin to standardize on, for example, the 2005Q3 packages, and allows "cherry picking" of packages for security updates from a later tree. Is there a way to do this at the blastwave level? I'm currently working on doing something like this in-house, and I think that this method might benefit others as well.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Just food for thought…</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Mark</FONT>
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