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Date:      Wed, 26 May 1999 20:26:47 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        dcs@newsguy.com (Daniel C. Sobral)
Cc:        davids@webmaster.com, mike@smith.net.au, serge69@nym.alias.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ?
Message-ID:  <199905261826.UAA01115@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <374C0839.AD2EE3FC@newsguy.com> from "Daniel C. Sobral" at "May 26, 1999 11:42: 1 pm"

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As Daniel C. Sobral wrote ...
> Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > 
> > There is one detail I miss: most commercial products are supported by
> > supplying limited scale fixes (OK, sometime a *lot* of them) instead of
> > a wholesale upgrade.
> > 
> > Not that I advocate starting a patch circus like most of the commercial folks
> > mind you! Just an observation.
> 
> We also do that, through cvsup. Of course, the process of installing
> said fixes involves a make world, which could as well be a black
> box. Can you tell the difference between that and applying a service
> pack?

Yes. Make world on -STABLE generally works. Service packs don't ;-)

I'm known to break NT servers when I touch them, so no need to convince me..

Wilko
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