Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 14:10:08 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Message-ID: <XFMail.010316141008.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010316140408.N29888@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On 16-Mar-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> [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? Do we do any of these things when you cvsup -current on a -stable machine? No. Instead, we talk about what -stable and -current are in our documentation. The same method should be used here. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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