From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 13 0:44:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.internet.dk (ns.internet.dk [194.19.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0702B37B587 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 00:44:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by ns.internet.dk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id JAA15146; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:43:55 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Received: from gina (gina.neland.dk [192.168.0.14]) by arnold.neland.dk (8.11.0/8.9.3) with SMTP id e7D7hh572415; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:43:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from leifn@neland.dk) Message-ID: <06e001c004fa$39e94d60$0e00a8c0@neland.dk> Reply-To: "Leif Neland" From: "Leif Neland" To: "Mike Meyer" , Cc: "Mike Meyer" , "Idea Receiver" , "Warner Losh" References: <14742.14082.837564.871879@guru.mired.org><200008130553.XAA06673@harmony.village.org> <14742.15675.412839.269577@guru.mired.org> Subject: Re: Build breakage (was: fail to compile kernel...) Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:39:02 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I didn't mean to finger you particularly. It's just a bit upsetting to > realize that I can't remember the last time I managed to do an update > to -current without some kind of breakage. I realize that -current > isn't guaranteed to build, but that's a bit ridiculous. I mean - I was > pleasantly surprised that I could build the world first time out. To > find the kernel breaking for a module that I have no absolutely no use > for on this machine was a bit upsetting. > > I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't use -stable as a buffer, and > just let the committers deals with things not being up to -current. Or > maybe check to see if the other *BSD's aren't a bit more demanding of > committers. > What if the machine building snapshots took a note of the time it cvsup'ped. Then if the build succeded, it would append this date to a file. We could then feed this date to our cvsup, to get a version which at least compiled. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message