From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Nov 16 19:22:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA21956 for ports-outgoing; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 19:22:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA21940; Sat, 16 Nov 1996 19:22:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id EAA03964; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 04:22:02 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id EAA21711; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 04:22:01 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id EAA10624; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 04:17:36 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611170317.EAA10624@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: need to test a security patch for 2.1.5/2.1.6 To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 04:17:36 +0100 (MET) Cc: committers@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <96Nov16.184932pst.177557@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from Bill Fenner at "Nov 16, 96 06:49:20 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)