From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 23:10:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EAE2737B400 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 23:10:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 75688 invoked by uid 100); 20 Jan 2001 07:10:08 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14953.14800.302302.403387@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:10:08 -0600 (CST) To: Bill Moran Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: I am confused about tracking stable In-Reply-To: <98615336@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran types: > 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. I think that's intelligent, not paranoid. However, I wonder about using cvsup and date tags to update the other systems. Wouldn't it be a little easier/faster/etc. to do the nfs buildworld/installworld split thing that's been discussed here, or rdist the source tree from the test machine to the other machines? Thanx, http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message