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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2006 00:46:22 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ARRRRGH!  Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!
Message-ID:  <20060914044621.GA26351@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <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> <20060914012316.V1031@ganymede.hub.org>

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On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 01:37:53AM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:55:48 -0500
> >Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> 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

No-one's said that, so yeah, not the best question ;^)

Kris

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