From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 9 19: 9: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from xena.gsicomp.on.ca (cr677933-a.ktchnr1.on.wave.home.com [24.43.230.149]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD4037B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:09:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Received: from hermes (hermes.gsicomp.on.ca [192.168.0.18]) by xena.gsicomp.on.ca (8.11.1/8.11.3) with SMTP id f3A276R24461; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:07:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from matt@gsicomp.on.ca) Message-ID: <008901c0c162$8a684960$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> From: "Matthew Emmerton" To: "Conrad Sabatier" , "Bob K" Cc: References: Subject: Re: supfile idea (was Re: Releases) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:04:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On 09-Apr-2001 Bob K wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > > > [snip] > >> Matthew Emmerton 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 like the idea of stable-supfile, so it should stay. standard-supfile should *definitely* refer to the -REL in which it is a part of. In that case, a novice user who doesn't change anything would end up cvsup'ing code that they already have on their system or on CD - no harm done. Further, they'd actually have to RTFM to figure out what tags to use to get what they really want. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message