From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 10 11:15:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA05622 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:15:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA05613 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 11:15:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr07.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00341; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:15:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr07.primenet.com(206.165.6.207) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd000282; Wed Feb 10 12:15:33 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA21530; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:15:25 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199902101915.MAA21530@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: softupdates To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Kris Kennaway) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 19:15:25 +0000 (GMT) Cc: fjoe@iclub.nsu.ru, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Kris Kennaway" at Feb 10, 99 02:43:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > what is the current status of softupdates? > > is it safe to turn on softupdates (no ccd)? > > It's been working just fine here for at least the last 6 months.. I haven't > heard any softupdates-related panics/crashes on the mailing lists in a while. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It could very well be that those people running soft updates are so trashed that they can't post their horror stories to the list... That was a joke, in case it wasn't obvious. I think there are still two or three "rough edges", if not outright bugs, like unexpected behaviour when marking /, etc.. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message