Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:49:58 +0100 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@4thwave.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is the STABLE branch not so stable anymore? Message-ID: <20010612184958.B11577@tethys.valhalla.net> In-Reply-To: <a0zobdeq46.fsf@panix6.panix.com>; from evenson@panix.com on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:20:57AM -0400 References: <Pine.A41.3.96.1010612000229.84080E-100000@gsaix2.cc.GaSoU.EDU> <3B25CAEC.27AF9D30@cisco.com> <a0zobdeq46.fsf@panix6.panix.com>
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Mark Evenson (evenson@panix.com) wrote: > W Gerald Hicks <gehicks@cisco.com> writes: > > > Cripes people, the CVS repository is available for people to be able > > to slide back and forth in time as necessary. It only requires a > > tiny bit of competence. For fair effort on your part you also gain > > a fair amount of liberty along with a system that has literally made > > computing history in terms of stability. On top of that, it's free. > > Not true: anonymous CVS access to the FreeBSD tree has not been > available for at least a couple years now. Or did I miss something? The date=[cc]yy.mm.dd.hh.mm.ss option in cvsup configuration files (supfiles) allows you to specify an arbitrary date to update your source tree to. If -stable breaks, cvsup your sources to a date just before the tree got broken and build on that. Cheers, -- Mark Drayton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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