From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Mar 19 21:56:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-1242.charter-stl.com [24.217.116.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9520C37B718 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 21:56:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 1085CA90B; Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:55:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:55:01 -0600 From: Andrew Hesford To: Mike Nowlin Cc: Matt Martini , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA Message-ID: <20010319235501.A345@cec.wustl.edu> References: <20010319214915.A33199@cec.wustl.edu> <20010320000239.A31887@argos.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010320000239.A31887@argos.org>; from mike@argos.org on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:02:39AM -0500 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You could do things this way. Or you could employ my method: As a college student, I have loads of free time that would be better spent studying for exams, and yet somehow is never used that way. When I have homework due in two days, I'd rather be doing something... anything... that doesn't have a due date. To fight the boredom of class, I prefer to cvsup whenever my uptime rivals that of impressive Windows boxes... say, 3 or 4 days. If nothing goes wrong, at least I've blown 10 minutes cvsup'ing, an hour rebuilding the world, 20 minutes installing it, and a few more for mergemaster. If something goes wrong, I can spend time fixing it. It's actually quite liberating... when I see all thost "Problem with buildworld!" messages, I just delete them en masse. As it were, I have never had trouble building the world, no matter how trouble-ridden the mailing lists have been. On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 12:02:39AM -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote: > I've been tracking 3- and 4-STABLE on around 30 machines (some started back at > 2.1), and they've been extremely solid. The trick is to not trust the fact > that the word "STABLE" is in there - read the lists, and only CVSup/rebuild > when you see a week or so of nobody posting major blowups that all seem to > have a common set of symptoms. Maintain an in-house CVS mirror that only > gets updated when you decide it's time, update a machine that isn't all that > important off the mirror & run it for a few days, then update the rest of > the machines off the same mirror time/date when you decide it's safe. > mike -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message