From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 8 23:37:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from web3101.mail.yahoo.com (web3101.mail.yahoo.com [204.71.202.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DFB037B549 for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:37:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsstan@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20000709063707.28722.qmail@web3101.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [206.141.200.79] by web3101.mail.yahoo.com; Sat, 08 Jul 2000 23:37:07 PDT Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:37:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Stanaford Subject: Re: Synching my src... To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --- Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Richard Stanaford wrote: > > > I will probably need to pull most of the src tree in order to go > > STABLE from 4.0-RELEASE and that is a seven hour download across a 56K > > dialup connection... a significant investment of time. So you can > > understand my caution. > > Well, suppose you pick a bad date to grab the sources. After your 7 hour > initial investment, it becomes a 5 minute additional investment to update > to a later date where it's fixed :-) > > Kris :-P You're right my friend. Heh. I overlooked the fact that a tree sync need not be an all or nothing venture. I'm grabbing them now. -Richard __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail – Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message