Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:30:18 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net>, Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>, "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: 4.1-STABLE fails to 'buildkernel'? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009131426420.1305-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009131000380.13640-100000@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > Note also that it states "If you are a commercial user or someone who puts > > maximum stability ..." Kinda difficult to get 'maximum stability' when > > the code won't even compile ... > > And thats not an inappropriate suggestion. It just means that GIVEN THAT > the code will occasionally have compilation problems, and even more > occasionally catastrophic runtime bugs, that the smart commercial user > will have a careful deployment strategy that reflects this fact. > > Again, "stable" doesn't refer to the compilation process, and bugs which > will damage an installed system are very rare. Okay, I'll grant you that one ... and, in this case, it was operator error where I didn't do buildworld->buildkernel->installkernel->installworld, *but*, that order is so far buried down in the UPDATING file as to be irrelevant. I try and keep my systems "up to date" within a month, sometimes less, sometimes a bit more, and *automatically* read through /usr/src/UPDATING as far as the last time I upgraded ... whether that be my 5.0-CURRENT system at home, or the 4.1-STABLE machines I have deployed ... I've had several ppl email me private messages complaining that it appear that -STABLE is a drifting island that nobody can get rescued off of when there are problem ... in this case, I had to finally cross-post to -current to find out that I was overlooking the "not so obvious" need to recompile genassym to get through locore.s :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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