Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:00:59 +1200 From: "Juha Saarinen" <juha@saarinen.org> To: "'Joe Kelsey'" <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>, "'Stable'" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD Message-ID: <00cf01c0fc40$c0348db0$0a01a8c0@den2> In-Reply-To: <15157.11221.593513.478892@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
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:: The tracking of stable is not for everyone. Noone *needs* to track :: stable. Well, that isn't what the Handbook says: "19.2.2.2. Who needs FreeBSD-STABLE? If you are a commercial user or someone who puts maximum stability of their FreeBSD system before all other concerns, you should consider tracking FreeBSD-STABLE. This is especially true if you have installed the most recent release (4.3-RELEASE at the time of this writing) since the FreeBSD-STABLE branch is effectively a bug-fix stream relative to the previous release." Reading that para (plus the ones before that), effectively tells you that -STABLE is what you should use for err.... maximum stability. You get the bugfixes and security fixes that aren't in -RELEASE. :: current with stable. You will miss the security upgrades :: unless there :: is a relatively easy way to incorporate those without :: recompiling from :: source. So... you need to track -STABLE, right? :: the peculiar make used by FreeBSD. What we need is an apt-get-like :: upgrade path for security fixes that solves the problem of people :: tracking one version of stable or another. Remove the necessity of :: recompiling from source and we remove almost all reasons for :: people to :: complain about the stableness of stable just because they ran into a :: minor problem of timing WRT cvsup and updates to the source tree. Now this is I agree with. Binary patches, please. -- Juha To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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