Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:04:48 +0300 (MSK) From: "Alexis Yushin" <alexis@unicorn.ww.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Making serious use of FreeBSD... Message-ID: <199602050704.KAA00381@unicorn.ww.net>
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Greetins,
We currently run one of the major ISP for the Crimean
peninsula on FreeBSD-2.1-RELEASE machines only and feel confident
in this operating system. Still stability problems occurs sometimes
and I would like to get freebsd-hackers input and suggestion on
how to avoid them.
The primary question is a FAQ, still not solved for sure:
``What FreeBSD version do I run and maintain to achieve maximal
stability?'' Actually this is what -stable for, but it is not
sufficient sometimes... As Jordan wrote one should have -current
and -stable branches (ok, I already have them) to take the best
parts from both of them. As far as I see -current is 2.2 already
and -stable is 2.1. I expirienced much of the troubles with DigiBoard
driver which handles all of my slip, ppp, uucp and terminal
connections. (PLEASE don't tell me I need a hardware router, better
buy me it on my birthday :-) There are a lot of problems in it,
because of closed polici of Digi etc, along with incompatibility
between -current and -stable. Do I switch my router to -current?
Is -current expected to run more stable than -stable? Guess not,
but I cannot see an easy way out...
Another question is just estetical and almost of ``Is it
ok?'' kind. We spoke of -stable and -current supporting, and what
I have done:
In the /src filesystem (1G) I made the following tree:
/src/FreeBSD
/src/FreeBSD/current
/src/FreeBSD/stable
/src/FreeBSD/sup
The appropriate sup instances gets appropriate version into
appropriate directories. :-) How do I have more than one version
compiled simultaneously on one machine (one filesystem)? I could
make current/obj and stable/obj directories but how do I tell
each collection to compile into the appropriate places?
And the last one is how do I determine where the most stable
part is without experiencing myself on a hard-working system?
alexis
P.S. I reread this message I found it rather lamish... :-) Sorry, it
must be too early in the morning...
--
The more experienced you are the less people you can get advice from.
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