From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 11 21:39:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6CE7C37B423 for ; Wed, 11 Apr 2001 21:39:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 92584 invoked by uid 100); 12 Apr 2001 04:39:10 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15061.12654.520957.357722@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:39:10 -0500 To: david@banning.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildkernel problem with current In-Reply-To: <200104120429.f3C4Tqn74188@d.tracker> References: <15060.58175.50263.426611@guru.mired.org> <200104120429.f3C4Tqn74188@d.tracker> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Banning types: > > David Banning types: > > > I am updating to current right now. > > Are you sure you want to do that? current isn't meant for production > > machines, and people who can't fend for themselves may wind up with > > unusable hardware. > I think so. My main purpose in going to current is challenge myself > with the errors, and learning by solving those - albeit with help from > the FreeBSD community. > Is that a good reason? I'd say no. It's not one of the officially sanctioned reasons. If all you really want is errors to challenge you, then going to Windows would be more productive. If you want problems to work on, the PR database is full of them - and working on them doesn't require going to -current. You'll also find people more willing to help you dig yourself out of any holes you may find yourself in doing such on -stable. If you're hoping to get more build breakages to go look at - well, that will probably happen. But it's not really very productive use of your time, and the "help" wil generally consist of the appropriate maintainer submitting a patch, so you probably won't learn much either. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message