From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 16: 8:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2504137B6CD for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:08:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0K0BId13809; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:11:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:11:18 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Bill Moran Cc: Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am confused about tracking stable Message-ID: <20010119161118.A13772@citusc17.usc.edu> References: <01012000204800.03036@buffy> <20010119154538.A13324@citusc17.usc.edu> <3A68D275.BB416780@mail.iowna.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A68D275.BB416780@mail.iowna.com>; from wmoran@mail.iowna.com on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:49:09PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 06:49:09PM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > The reason I use it is for updating my production servers. I have a test > machine that I update to the latest -STABLE, and then test for a week. > If everything goes fine, I then upgrade any production servers I want to > upgrade to that EXACT version that I tested (using date tags.) Paranoid, > I know, but I'm too lazy to fix things after the fact. That's a *very smart* way to do it. I wish more people did that instead of whacking the latest code directly onto all of their production servers and then whining when there's a bug which affects them. Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6aNemWry0BWjoQKURAnnkAKCKPiEkus4AWdHMfhmIUw+SBLfSFACg8ukn iNx1SYME8Wx0gtL4KXLpoes= =VTTg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VbJkn9YxBvnuCH5J-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message