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Date:      Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:57:23 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "jett" <tayerv@team.ph.inter.net>, <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: make world every week?
Message-ID:  <p05101007b783f1bdbfb9@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <014901c114b3$48d98140$4b443dca@jett>
References:  <014901c114b3$48d98140$4b443dca@jett>

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At 10:41 AM +0800 7/25/01, jett wrote:
>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?

If you wish to say you are "staying stable", then you would want
to do a buildworld frequently.  At least once a week, imo.

On the other hand, there is no need to be a slave to "staying stable".
I tend to build once-a-month, or a little quicker than that if I see
something of interest to me go by.  Lately it has worked out to a
buildworld about every other weekend, but I expect to drop back to
once-a-month sometime soon.  Stick with whatever schedule you are
comfortable with.

One thing I would add.  If you stumble across something which is not
working right, then I would suggest building stable before reporting
that.  (at least if you are trying to follow stable).  It may very
well be that a change made last week has broken something, but that
something is already fixed by this week.  If you did not stumble upon
a problem until two weeks after you last did a buildworld, then it is
probably a good idea to do a new buildworld before reporting the problem.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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