From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jul 21 16:41:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CAEB37B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:41:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spork.pantherdragon.org (spork.pantherdragon.org [206.29.168.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B9743E42 for ; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:41:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmp@pantherdragon.org) Received: from sparx.pantherdragon.org (evrtwa1-ar10-4-61-236-062.evrtwa1.dsl-verizon.net [4.61.236.62]) by spork.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC40A471D7; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pantherdragon.org (speck.techno.pagans [172.21.42.2]) by sparx.pantherdragon.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC84FDA0; Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:41:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D3B46A5.D5880EEA@pantherdragon.org> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 16:41:26 -0700 From: Darren Pilgrim X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Going to -stable for the first time References: <3D3B37FE.3FD324DE@pantherdragon.org> <200207211858.04269.bts@babbleon.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Brian T. Schellenberger" wrote: > ]On Sunday 21 July 2002 06:38 pm, Darren Pilgrim wrote: > | I'm upgrading to -stable for the first time, and was wondering if > | anyone had any advice besides or gotchas? Is this a good time to > | cvsup? > > It seems to be a good time right now because the list is quiet. My advice is > to cvsup whenever you want (today is good), and when wait at least a day and > preferably two and monitor the list. If you haven't heard of any new > problems here, *then* build and install the system. This is exactly the kind of advice I was hoping for, thanks. > Also, check out UPDATING and list archives are never a bad thing to consult. I have, but at always, documentation != real world. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message