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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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