From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 24 20:19:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-141-144.mmcable.com [24.27.141.144]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1CBD37B409 for ; Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:19:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 5145 invoked by uid 100); 25 Jul 2001 03:19:32 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15198.15044.424089.897222@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:19:32 -0500 To: "jett" Cc: "freebsd-stable" Subject: Re: make world every week? In-Reply-To: <014901c114b3$48d98140$4b443dca@jett> References: <014901c114b3$48d98140$4b443dca@jett> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG jett types: > im running freebsd 4.3-stable and every friday night i'm updating my > sources via cvsup. my question is do i have to always build the > world after every cvsup so that i may stay stable? Well, I'd say you're not really tracking stable in that case. On the other hand, if you're watching the CVS and -stable mail lists, you'll have an idea when something interesting goes into the sources and can update at that time, which some would stay is tracking stable. Frequency of updating - modulo security fixes - is really a question of personal preference so long as you use reasonable practices during the udpate process. I try and do the update once a week as a matter of course, as more frequent updates are less traumatic in mergemaster. I also prefer it if the sources match the installed system, so I generally don't cvsup unless I'm planning on rebuilding things in the near future. 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