Date: 13 Mar 2002 14:24:24 -0800 From: swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /etc/make.conf question Message-ID: <og7kog9kdj.kog@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20020313115014.034f9180@207.227.119.2> References: <4.3.2.20020312135845.0369fc20@207.227.119.2> <20020312114158.A92910@blackhelicopters.org> <Pine.GSO.4.32.0203121126520.1546-100000@nippur.irb.hr> <20020312074349.A91204@blackhelicopters.org> <20020312155618.GA9463@raggedclown.net> <20020312114158.A92910@blackhelicopters.org> <shk7sha9n2.7sh@localhost.localdomain> <4.3.2.20020312135845.0369fc20@207.227.119.2> <4.3.2.20020313115014.034f9180@207.227.119.2>
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"Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net> writes: > No matter, it's not good to publicly suggest non-standard procedures. Wheewww. Matthew and I can consider ourselfs fortunate that we made no suggestions. > Matthew's > "make update buildworld kernel" is even worse as doing an update without > knowing you are in the middle of a mass commit is one way to break a > build. Another way is to use the "standard procedure". It's still not clear to me how four steps is better than one, at least until I understand how to avoid the mid-commit problem. > Better to pull and wait at least a short time before building to ensure > one has all the commits of a change. The wait won't ensure that, of course. How DOES one ensure that? > Of course most don't know pulling sources again and then trying the > build once more *before* complaining of breakage *should* be the first > thing to do, so there are many false alarms. 8-) If *some* observed a common problem and knew how to *avoid* it, *they'd* write a *PR* on the handbook (or other document). I think that's a *standard procedure*. If someone knows, suggest it here: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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