From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 14 04:39:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC5716A416 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:39:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B837643D46 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:39:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C4B3A464E; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:39:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 48865-04; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:37:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-137-86-60.eastlink.ca [24.137.86.60]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E9A3A464B; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:37:52 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1027) id 08AA446E41; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:37:54 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04E4833C25; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:37:54 -0300 (ADT) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:37:53 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" X-X-Sender: freebsd@ganymede.hub.org To: Steve O'Hara-Smith In-Reply-To: <20060912171617.556a43cc.steve@sohara.org> Message-ID: <20060914012316.V1031@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060909173813.GA1388@FS.denninger.net> <45065C67.6040503@cs.tu-berlin.de> <20060912141547.GA11713@FS.denninger.net> <4506D884.4050605@scls.lib.wi.us> <20060912171617.556a43cc.steve@sohara.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?! X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 04:39:13 -0000 On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:55:48 -0500 > Greg Barniskis wrote: > >> If you /track/ STABLE by frequently cvsupping it and rebuilding your >> system, you will very likely encounter a serious problem sooner or >> later. That's why tracking it is not recommended for production >> systems. > > I did exactly that all the way from 2.0 to 4.11 on various machines > without ever having any trouble. Ditto ... in fact, I do that on my desktop and have yet to hit a problem ... -STABLE *is* generally very stable ... Stupid question here ... if -STABLE shouldn't be tracked, who exactly is doing testing on it? Those doing "the work" on -CURRENT, I would imagine, are tracking -CURRENT, and testing the code put in there for bugs ... when deemed 'bug free', then its being MFCd to -STABLE, but if those of us that *are* tracking -STABLE stop'd tracking it ... who would be testing it? ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664