Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 11:18:02 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: usable current SNAP Message-ID: <19971019111802.57002@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199710190055.SAA09391@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>; from Steve Passe on Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 06:55:43PM -0600 References: <199710190055.SAA09391@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
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On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 06:55:43PM -0600, Steve Passe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to bring up a web server this week using current. This needs to
> be a "works first time" installation (to impress a client).
I don't understand this. This is *not* the purpose of -current. To
quote:
So why use current? The main reasons are:
o You yourself might be working on some part of the source tree. Keeping
``current'' is an absolute requirement.
o You may be an active tester, which imples that you're willing to spend time
working through problems in order to ensure that FreeBSD-CURRENT remains as
sane as possible. You may also wish to make topical suggestions on changes
and the general direction of FreeBSD.
o You may just want to keep an eye on things and use the current sources for
reference purposes.
People occasionally have other reasons for wanting to use FreeBSD-CURRENT. The
following are not good reasons:
o They see it as a way to be the first on the block with great new FreeBSD
features. This is not a good reason, because there's no reason to believe
that the features will stay, and there is good reason to believe that they
will be unstable.
o They see it as a quick way of getting bug fixes. In fact, it's a way of
testing bug fixes. Bug fixes will be retrofitted into the -STABLE branch as
soon as they have been properly tested.
o They see it as the newest officially supported release of FreeBSD. This is
incorrect: FreeBSD-CURRENT is not officially supported. The support is
provided by the users.
If you want to impress a customer, I would have thought that -stable
would be a much better choice.
Greg
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