From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 16:11:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (unknown [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF6337B401; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:11:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.iowna.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f0K08m709415; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:08:48 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3A68D6F6.576598AE@mail.iowna.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 19:08:23 -0500 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Cliff Sarginson , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I am confused about tracking stable References: <01012000204800.03036@buffy> <20010119154538.A13324@citusc17.usc.edu> <3A68D275.BB416780@mail.iowna.com> <20010119161118.A13772@citusc17.usc.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > 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. Me too, as hard as the team works, (very) occasionally nasty bugs get into -STABLE. That's why there's a code freeze before a -RELEASE is burned. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message