From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 07:27:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 983CE16A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:27:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cybcon.com (mail.cybcon.com [216.190.188.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D24F43FE3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:27:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wwoods@cybcon.com) Received: from yogi.cybcon.com (IDENT:CGpK26eMpW0oowg6I6ipTsr0c5tmmb5M@www.cybcon.com [216.190.188.13]) by mail.cybcon.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h8MERPm21713; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:27:25 -0700 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 07:27:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Woods To: Nick Barnes In-Reply-To: <12829.1064235540@thrush.ravenbrook.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner-Information: Spam/Virus Scanned at CyberConnectics X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: cc: Jacob cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 14:27:47 -0000 While I tend to agree with you on the steps you outline, there should NOT be a firestorm on stable, things should be fairly well tested BEFORE being commited to stable. Maby its time to revisit the branch naming scheme, considering the name "stable" carries with it certian implications. On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Nick Barnes wrote: > At 2003-09-21 10:19:31+0000, "Jacob" writes: > > A few different people have told me different ways here, don't wanna risk > > screwing it up. > > > > I cvsupped with stable-supfile and ports-supfile, now I'm doing make > > buildworld. Now, the way I was going to do it was after the > > buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=MILOWARE, then make > > installkernel=MILOWARE, then a restart. After that doing make > > installworld then mergemaster. > > > > Is this right? > > The right thing to do is *always* this: > > 0. Subscribe to -stable. Do not upgrade if there's a firestorm on > being reported on -stable. > > 1. cvsup. > > 2. Read /usr/src/UPDATING. > > 3. Follow the instructions there. > > Note that this cannot be automated. > > Nick B > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >