From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 31 5:13:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gooey.bunnynet.org (day-oh18-76.ix.netcom.com [207.220.166.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4C014C44 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 05:13:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwhite@donet.com) Received: from yiff (yiff.bunnynet.org [10.3.2.4]) by gooey.bunnynet.org (8.9.2/8.8.7) with SMTP id IAA08946 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:13:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwhite@donet.com) From: "Matt White" To: Subject: RE: cvsup frequency? Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 08:12:31 -0500 Message-ID: <000201be7b78$2249b3a0$0402030a@yiff.bunnynet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <14081.19094.209097.329091@sappho.evolving.com> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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