Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:37:02 -0700 From: "Joshua Lokken" <questions@joshualokken.com> To: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, "Supote Leelasupphakorn" <pjn0211@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnitiev@nashe.ru Message-ID: <00a701c33040$24860930$1404e9c6@inspectorbox> References: <20030611091314.29068.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com> <20030611100626.GD69365@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Seaman" <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: "Supote Leelasupphakorn" <pjn0211@yahoo.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:06 AM Subject: Re: gnitiev@nashe.ru On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 10:13:14AM +0100, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: > Hello, > > >I heard that RELENG_4 is not always able to compile > >correctly because it's source are updated so often. > >I recommend you, in production to cvsup only > >RELENG_4_7 or RELENG_4_8 or RELENG_4_X where "X" is > >minor version number. >In principle, that's absolutely true. In practice, however, >compilation killing or other nasty errors in RELENG_4 are as rare as >hen's teeth and generally get fixed very promptly. It's a great >testament to the ability and care of the FreeBSD committers that it >should be so. If you follow the freebsd-stable@... list, you'll get >very fast notification of any problems in the tree. Indeed, -stable has built flawlessly for me for quite some time now (I think I've tracked it since 4.5R). It should not be a problem, as long as you *follow the instructions in the handbook*. Joshua
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