From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 9:14:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE0B37B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.uits.uconn.edu (mail1.uits.uconn.edu [137.99.25.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 607D443E6A for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:14:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@forsetti.com) Received: from d80h149.public.uconn.edu (d80h149.public.uconn.edu [137.99.80.149]) by mail1.uits.uconn.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9IGEQf20827; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 12:14:26 -0400 Subject: Re: Best practice when building a -STABLE branch kernel From: Matt Smith To: joe Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200210180910.55374.joe@dubium.com> References: <200210180910.55374.joe@dubium.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 18 Oct 2002 12:14:25 -0400 Message-Id: <1034957669.90679.6.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG List, please correct me if I am wrong: The business-as-usual practice would be to not run -Stable, but rather run a -Release. -Stable, although more stable than -Current, should not be run in business-production, although my hunch is that many small environments do. If you are running -Stable, then chances are you have some technical knowledge, and could contribute back to the project, in which case including debugging options could be helpful. Any other thoughts? -Matt On Fri, 2002-10-18 at 12:10, joe wrote: > Is it a best practice to include debuging options in a -STABLE tree > kernel? > > I have read the following article which suggests that a business-as- > usual practice should be to include debugging options. > > >http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/03/21/Big_Scary_Daemons.html?page=1 > > The kernel developer's handbook > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html) > does not offer an opinion > > Is there some alternative thinking? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Joe Sotham > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Christianity got over the difficulty of furious opposites by keeping > them both and keeping them furious. > - G.K. Chesterton > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message