From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 26 14:12:22 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 585FA37B407 for ; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:12:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA10072; Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:11:13 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 14:11:13 -0700 From: "Chad R. Larson" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: juha@saarinen.org, joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20010626141113.C9911@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <15157.11221.593513.478892@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <00cf01c0fc40$c0348db0$0a01a8c0@den2> <20010624023403R.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010624023403R.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>; from jkh@osd.bsdi.com on Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:34:03AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:34:03AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > As I said at the beginning, perhaps it's time to simply re-write the > Handbook paragraph which inadvertently "sells" -stable as a solution > for certain types of problems it was never meant to solve. Yes, the handbook paragraph was clearly written to suggest that if you run a production machine you should track -STABLE **in leiu of -CURRENT**, not as a general rule. That is, if you chose to track anything at all, it should be -STABLE. That should be easy to clarify. > - Jordan -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message