4.9-RC1 (i386) available on ftp-master

[Ken Smith]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:52:32AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:

> I'll send an announcement to stable@ in 6 hours..

Just FYI...

Since it contained a complete package set it will take anywhere from
eight to twelve hours for ftp-master.us.freebsd.org alone to transfer
the whole thing.  Because of the way cvsup works sites syncing with
that won't even start downloading it from ftp-master.us until then,
sites that use rsync will begin downloading whatever they see when
they connect but obviously won't have the whole thing until one
sync cycle after ftp-master.us has the whole thing.  The same basic
scheme applies to the other Tier-0 sites and the sites they feed.

The good news is that if packages-4.9-release doesn't change this
will be the last big painful transfer.  I haven't had an opportunity
to time the transfer of just the release/ portion yet.  The next
beta should give me an opportunity to do that.

It's up to you but I'd shoot for more like 24 hours for the announcement
because of the impact the packages will have.  If the future betas don't
include full package sets 12 hours might be possible if your expectations
are that only some of the mirror sites have the bits at the point you
do the announcement.  If you expect the majority of the mirror sites to
have it then you should never make the announcement less than 24 hours
after posting the bits to ftp-master.

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