Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:50:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com> To: Bob K <melange@yip.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: supfile idea (was Re: Releases) Message-ID: <XFMail.20010409195015.conrads@home.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104091916360.88125-100000@pi.yip.org>
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On 09-Apr-2001 Bob K wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > [snip] >> Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> types: >> > In the case of people running -CURRENT on a production machine, that's >> > just >> > a plain and simple mistake. Ever wonder how someone who barely knows how >> > to >> > use cvsup and make world manages to obtain -CURRENT in the first place? >> >> No, because it happens to everyone who uses the standard-supfile in >> the /usr/share/examples/cvsup. I think that stable-supfile should >> vanish from that directory, and standard-supfile should be right for >> the branch the system came from, no matter which branch that was. > [snip] > > I'm not going to touch on the rest of the thread, but that idea seems like > an extremely good one. How 'bout putting this in once 4.3's gone out the > door? I think it might be better, perhaps, to rename standard-supfile to something like unstable-supfile (unstable-supfile-use-at-your-own-risk? :-), and leave stable-supfile alone. That should be enough to ward off the wary. -- Conrad Sabatier conrads@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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