From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jun 11 20: 7:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (acs-24-154-28-172.zoominternet.net [24.154.28.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61B3137B405 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:06:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from topperwein.dyndns.org (topperwein.dyndns.org [192.168.168.10]) by topperwein.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f5C38aK33005 for ; Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:08:36 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 23:08:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: FreeBSD-Stable Subject: Re: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 12-Jun-2001 Chris BeHanna wrote: > > Suggestion: committers hold off on commits for 30 minutes before > > and after midnight UTC, so that those who track stable can grab the > > tree as of midnight each night knowing that they didn't do so in the > > middle of a large commit. > > Except that only works if a) you grab the sources around UTC midnight, You can tell cvsup to use a particular timestamp, no? (e.g., 2001.06.11.23.59.59) > and b) the cvsup mirror (you are using a close mirror right :) has > updated recently... One can wait for the update and still grab the appropriate snapshot via using a timestamp with cvsup or anoncvs. (Yes, I use a close mirror--whenever a new one is announced, I run a testmirrors script and use whomever is the fewest hops away. :-) -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (Remove "bogus" before responding.) behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net I was raised by a pack of wild corn dogs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message