Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:04:08 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <20010316140408.N29888@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010316135936.jhb@FreeBSD.org>; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:36PM -0800 References: <p05010405b6d832f1a9e8@[128.113.24.47]> <XFMail.010316135936.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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* John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [010316 14:00] wrote: re -BETA > > Actually, with the MFC spree that usually happens before a release, it is > potentially less stable than before. How many times has -stable had a broken > world in the 3 months between -BETA and 4.2-release, and how many times has it > been broken in the last few weeks? I rest my case.. The point is that I don't know how one detects that you're about to be nailed by this supposedly less 'stable' version of '-stable' until you reboot after installing the new world/kernel. Let's just add something to cvsup to prompt the user? Or something in the build process that's interactive? or what? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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