From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Nov 28 13:34:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from 24-25-220-29.san.rr.com (24-25-220-29.san.rr.com [24.25.220.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619F414A16; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:34:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by 24-25-220-29.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16073; Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:33:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38419FC1.1C63F94@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 13:33:53 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0927 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Michaels Cc: Kris Kennaway , "Forrest W. Christian" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Colin , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bug-fixing previous -RELEASE, was Re: speaking of 3.4... References: <19991128103420.A95893@phoenix.welearn.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathan Michaels wrote: > or put anouter way, is it possible to pick and choose the > patches (updates) that come down the cvs pipe every night ? I addressed this in my post yesterday, but I'll mention again briefly that what you suggest is possible for an experienced user, but because it's very likely that Fix A depends on some bits from Fixes B, Q and L what you are suggesting would likely be more difficult than just tracking -Stable in toto. Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message