Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:12:31 -0500 From: "Matt White" <mwhite@donet.com> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: cvsup frequency? Message-ID: <000201be7b78$2249b3a0$0402030a@yiff.bunnynet.org> In-Reply-To: <14081.19094.209097.329091@sappho.evolving.com>
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Hello; To add my two cents, I don't cvsup until right before I build the world. Why? Well, I've been burned by this before. I used to cvsup on a regular basis - every week or so. However, I don't build the world that often, say once a month. I had a big problem - my source was out of sync with the binaries, and in particular, my kernel source was out of sync for the kernel I was running. This became a big problem when my NIC died. I popped in another NIC I had laying around, and went to build a new kernel with support for it. So far, so good. But then on a reboot everything fell apart - top, who and numerous other utils wouldn't work. Why? The kernel format had changed just a slight amount, and it broke stuff. At this point I was stuck trying to cvsup and build the world again just to get the NIC working... what was suppose to be a quick and simple repair become a full evening worth of work. To prevent this again I cvsup and then immediately turn around and build the world. My life has been much easier ever since. =) My two cents. Matt -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Deborah Hooker Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 5:07 PM To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: cvsup frequency? I'm running 3.1-STABLE on a box that I depend on, but that isn't mission critical (seems like a good description of a box that should be running -STABLE, from what I've seen). How often does it make sense to cvsup/make world? (Not counting when I see particular fixes that I want to incorporate.) I'm thinking about just on a regular basis sort of tracking of stable, here. Suggestions? -Deb -- I'm a bitch, I'm a tease, I'm a goddess on my knees... | deb@pobox.com ____ "For extra fun, pop eyeball out of eye socket!" _______| DoD#0034 __\_ / May your soul be celebrating in Valhalla before | Big Wet Sleepy Eyes \ // the Christian God notices that you're dead. | Of A Tree Nymph \/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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