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Date:      Tue, 12 Sep 2000 09:34:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:      dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi)
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 4.1-STABLE fails to 'buildkernel'?
Message-ID:  <20000912163441.381337C58@yellow.rahul.net>
References:  <freebsd-stable.20000911222819.E69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>

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"Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net> writes:

>> doesn't it defeat the point of calling it -STABLE if it can't compile? :)

>Not compiling is not a problem....

>What SUCKS is when you manage to get through a make-world without an
>error, but the running system is broken. /That/ is something to whine
>about....

I believe the real problem is that there is no way of easily finding out
which set of files in the -STABLE tree form a self-consistent and
correctly-working set of files.  Most people assume that the latest
files form such a set but this, as you noticed, is not always true.  You
could always specify an earlier datestamp to check out, but it's hard to
find out what that datestamp should be.

In an ideal world you could specify a tag such as
'4_1_stable_last_known_good_set' which would always describe the last
known good set of files.
-- 
Rahul



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