Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 17:59:33 +0200 (EET) From: Andrew Stesin <stesin@gu.net> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: F00F patch problems for 2.2.5-RELEASE (incomplete patch.) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208175755.16743D-100000@beast.gu.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971208090633.16632J-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997, John Fieber wrote: > > > Fix: Update to the 2.2-stable version of the kernel or apply the > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Would you mind pointing out the breakpoint -STABLE snapshot date, > > please? > > I don't have an answer, but checking back in the file I was > rather stunned to notice that there is NO date information for > any of the updates. ?! > If you are applying the supplied patches, > that is probably okay, but a big problem for anyone being very > conservative and/or selective about tracking stable. That's exactly me myself :) > As has been > brought up recently, blindly tracking a "stable" kernel without > updating user-land utilities can bite you--I learned this from > personal experience. Same here. So I'm just grabbing the whole snapshot from time to time -- no time for extra experimentation. Best regards, Andrew Stesin nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE
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