From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 14: 4:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A3937B71A; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:04:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2GM48S25378; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:04:08 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:04:08 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: John Baldwin Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Terry Lambert , Jordan Hubbard , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <20010316140408.N29888@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jhb@FreeBSD.org on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 01:59:36PM -0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * John Baldwin [010316 14:00] wrote: re -BETA > > Actually, with the MFC spree that usually happens before a release, it is > potentially less stable than before. How many times has -stable had a broken > world in the 3 months between -BETA and 4.2-release, and how many times has it > been broken in the last few weeks? I rest my case.. The point is that I don't know how one detects that you're about to be nailed by this supposedly less 'stable' version of '-stable' until you reboot after installing the new world/kernel. Let's just add something to cvsup to prompt the user? Or something in the build process that's interactive? or what? -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message