From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 6 11:33:21 2002 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 E30D037B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:33:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from p233.pu.net (12-237-141-148.client.attbi.com [12.237.141.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4052843EB2 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 11:33:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bugs@p233.pu.net) Received: (from bugs@localhost) by p233.pu.net (8.12.6/8.11.6) id gB6JXNfj064196 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:33:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bugs) From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <200212061933.gB6JXNfj064196@p233.pu.net> Subject: Re: update strategies To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 13:33:22 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doing cvsups without builds/installs gets your source tree out of sync with your binaries. On -current this can cause trouble if the tree gets more buggy than normal and you have to do some debugging work. On -stable its probably not as large a concern but suppose you build a kernel that works, do cvsup's for a few weeks, and then build another kernel that doesn't work. You fall back to kernel.old. Then you find out it is really important to build a new kernel for some reason, i.e., new device or security alert - but you can't because of temporary bogosity of the -stable/-current tree. If you are a cvs wizard you can roll back but its certainly a lot easier to just leave things in sync. Its also worth thinking about your backups and when you cvsup. I mirror my system disks prior to cvsup so that the backup has binaries/sources in sync. Again, this is much more important to do on -current because you never know. :-) - but still worth doing on -stable. Later Mark Hittinger bugs@pu.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message