From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 26 10:32: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d211.dhcp212-26.cybercable.fr [212.198.26.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DA4A37B400 for ; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 10:31:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from herbelot.com (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.5]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA56498; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:31:36 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3C7BD487.A49767DE@herbelot.com> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 19:31:35 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "George V. Neville-Neil" Cc: Michael Lucas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Are there periodic "GOOD" tags in CVS for -CURRENT? References: <200202261749.JAA1293422@meer.meer.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, What I've done this WE was updating a very recent -Stable box to -Current (as described in UPDATING): this sems mostly not risky : as long as the make buildworld + make buildkernel does not succeed, you keep your valid -Stable machine. this is for the upgrade to a -Current. Afterwards, there is a paper by Matt Dillon (subject "My Recommended Development/Testing environment for -current", on -current, which mwlucas could include in the "official" doc tree), which seems to give good guidelines to update a -Current machine from a -Stable one : this is what I intend to do, but with the same box, dual-booting between -Stable and -Current) As a thread on -current indicated, the state of -Current is surpisingly good : I'm now port-compiling Gnome (KDE couldn't compile, though) TfH PS : this is on an SMP box, of course ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message