Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 04:17:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: committers@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: need to test a security patch for 2.1.5/2.1.6 Message-ID: <199611170317.EAA10624@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <96Nov16.184932pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 16, 96 06:49:20 pm"
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As Bill Fenner wrote: > >> thud - Test/build machine for -current. > > ...and for ports, i think. > > No, thud's a crappy place to test ports, it's got lots of crud lying around > (like tcl7.5 in /usr/local) so it's hard to make sure that your port will > work on a machine that doesn't have all the crud on it. Then it should be cleaned up. Test-building ports has been one of the reasons behind `thud' in the first place. Too many people build them on freefall (which is a machine where the SCSI LED never turns off), while thud is sitting mostly idle just about one meter away. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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