From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 27 14:50:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yourfit.com (28.wxfr1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.150.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A2437C153 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:50:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from armani.yourfit.com (armani.yourfit.com [192.168.1.120]) by mail.yourfit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA03488 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:50:31 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:50:30 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: behanna@zbzoom.net To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: General update methodology question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I was out for a walk, and I thought that the following might be a good idea: 1) locally mirror the FreeBSD CVSROOT (how would I do this?), re-syncing as I felt like it. 2) Pull a working tree out from either a branch (e.g., RELENG_4) or a fixed tag (e.g., RELENG_4_1_0_RELEASE). 3) Build and install. 4) As time progresses, cvs up from my local mirror, build and install. BUT, prior to doing that, tag my local copy (e.g., "WORKS_7-26-2000"). The idea here is that if someone does a hasty commit, and I suffer for it, I can easily get back to where I was. Inter alia, this would allow me to set up my own CVSROOT and keep other stuff in there besides FreeBSD, and not have to worry about how my CVSROOT environment variable is set. I am not currently a FreeBSD developer. Were I to become one, would my local tagging cause a problem? If so, I could always separate out stable and current in my local CVSROOT, and be sure to only tag stuff in stable. -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message