Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 16:47:14 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: standard-supfile (Was: Releases) Message-ID: <15059.32610.648363.284781@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <200104102053.NAA36777@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <200104101933.f3AJXYe81872@ns1.unixathome.org> <200104102053.NAA36777@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> types: > ... > > > > > Though many have called this a bikeshed, and at times I have agreed > > > that a lot of what is being said is a bikeshed (names are names, people who > > > attatch permanent fixed meaning to names are going to have problems > > > understanding lots of things, the -STABLE, -RELEASE, -BETA, -CURRENT tags > > > being one of them.) But I have seen 2 things come up in this last round of > > > this 8 year old thread that could actually use some fixing: > > > > > > a) Rename the standard-supfile, that one in itself has caused a lot > > > of grief and is a trivial change with minimal impact to the masses as > > > it really should only be used by -developers, who know how to deal with > > > all this. > > > > Renaming is a fine idea. What about one more step. Remove it > > altogether. The people that need it already know how to create it. How > > does that sound? > > I could go along with removing it from the -STABLE branch, after all > those are the people that keep blowing there toes off because we have > left a loaded gun laying in front of them and they don't seem to be > able to read the instructions we have placed on it... (actually having > gone and looked at it, this file could surely use a big fat Warning > in the top of it (and probably one in the README too!)!). My original suggestion was that standard-supfile should be the supfile for the branch it was on. In other words, remove it from every branch but -current, then rename stable-supfile for each of those branches to standard-supfile. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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