From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 11 10:39:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FEC37B401 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:39:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.omicnet.com (ip-208-181-72-171.adsl.radiant.net [208.181.72.171]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9207143FBD for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:39:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from questions@joshualokken.com) Received: from inspectorbox (130-94-160-46-dsl.hevanet.com [130.94.160.46]) by www.omicnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA30475; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:37:35 -0700 Message-ID: <00a701c33040$24860930$1404e9c6@inspectorbox> From: "Joshua Lokken" To: "Matthew Seaman" , "Supote Leelasupphakorn" References: <20030611091314.29068.qmail@web40609.mail.yahoo.com> <20030611100626.GD69365@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 10:37:02 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnitiev@nashe.ru X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 17:39:08 -0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Seaman" To: "Supote Leelasupphakorn" Cc: 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