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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2001 11:34:28 -0700
From:      "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Jason DiCioccio <Jason.DiCioccio@Epylon.com>
Cc:        "'Scott Johnson'" <sjohn@airlinksys.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Security Announcements 
Message-ID:  <200104111834.f3BIYS634015@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA0166D77F@goofy.epylon.lan> 
References:  <657B20E93E93D4118F9700D0B73CE3EA0166D77F@goofy.epylon.lan>

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If memory serves me right, Jason DiCioccio wrote:

>   While I don't take your approach to maintaining my machines (I
> actually use -STABLE), I completely agree with you.  I have
> encountered problems in -STABLE due to the given period of time that
> I simply cvsupped to it (getting -STABLE on a 'bad day').. Mind you,
> - -CURRENT has many more bad days than -STABLE does, but -STABLE
> definitely has them.  And if every single machine on your network has
> to be up at all times, I would agree with your patching -RELEASE
> method.  I'm sure many others take this path as well, and it seems a
> logical one.  It's nice to have a choice.

Another choice is to not grab the latest 4-STABLE, but use a 4-STABLE
from some time in the recent past that was reasonably bug-free.  See the
date= keyword to cvsup(8).

Bruce.



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