From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 20 19:11:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (mail0.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92F641510E for ; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 19:11:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-68-167.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.68.167]) by mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA28126; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:11:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id WAA60804; Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:02:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: brett@lariat.org Cc: grog@lemis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of FreeBSD-STABLE (was: Oddity in name resolution) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 19 Mar 1999 23:07:31 -0700" <4.1.19990319230014.03f4e680@localhost> References: <4.1.19990319230014.03f4e680@localhost> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990320220216M.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:02:16 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 33 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Use of FreeBSD-STABLE (was: Oddity in name resolution) [gutted :)] > > >The text is being overly cautious. In particular, it doesn't mention > >that all these problems exist for all software, and that despite all > >that, -STABLE is the best we have at any particular time. > > Again, it depends on what you mean by "best." In -STABLE, the docs > don't necessarily match the software, and there isn't as much end user > experience with the build. This can make it less desirable than > an older -RELEASE. Anectodal evidence in favor of -STABLE: I run six machines on a nearly continuous treadmill of CVSup and make world here. By watching the -STABLE list I decide when to build them but always at least weekly. The last failure on these boxes was pilot induced and occurred almost a year ago. Most of the problems I've seen lately are not likely to affect a typical -STABLE user since they have been mostly related to the installation bits built by 'make release'. Watching releng3.freebsd.org to see when snapshots are available seems to be a good indicator as well. Cheers, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message