From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 16 10:30:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from durango.picus.com (durango.picus.com [209.100.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB44037B5A0; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 10:30:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from abyss [209.100.22.250] by durango.picus.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id A07F11A0026; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 13:27:27 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" To: "Kris Kennaway" , "Francisco Reyes" Cc: "FreeBSd Chat list" Subject: RE: Is Stable really stable? Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 13:29:46 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -STABLE is /very/ stable. Sure, some funky stuff sneaks in once in a while, but like Kris said, it's just a matter of keeping up with the -stable mailing list and choosing your target carefully. If you miss, then reload, take aim, and try again :) ** > The recent changes in the way of making new kernels plus the ** ** Repeat after me: it's not a recent change - people just ** didn't get the ** message until it was rammed down their throats recently. I confess, I've not been keeping up with things very well, but what's changed in the way that kernels are built? I don't remember doing anything other than: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf cp GENERIC MYKERNEL vi MYKERNEL config MYKERNEL cd ../../compile/MYKERNEL make depend all install reboot Which seems to work equally well on my 2.2.8-STABLE, 3.2-STABLE, and 4.0-STABLE boxes. I'm quite positive it was the same as far back as 2.1.5 (when I first got serious about FreeBSD). -- Troy Settle Network Analyst Picus Communications 540.633.6327 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message