From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 1 13:26:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [206.40.252.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B419B37B401; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:26:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.4/8.11.1) id f71KOhZ11413; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:24:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:23:22 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: tonym@angis.org.au, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installworld failure (install of sbin/init) Message-ID: <20010801132322.A11318@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200108011101.VAA01143@morgan.angis.su.OZ.AU> <20010801120655.A10275@hub.freebsd.org> <20010801131329J.jkh@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010801131329J.jkh@freebsd.org>; from jkh@freebsd.org on Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:13:29PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:13:29PM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > I hope you don't mean to suggest that build failures in -stable are > now tolerated since they're most certainly not. Not in the least. Rather that the code base right now is quickly changing due to the code freeze today[*]; and that during times of such quick changes it is hard to `cvs up' at just the right moment to get a consistent world. Thus it will be much easier for people to build a release (which of course implies full world), after the dust settles. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) [*] of those I've talked to, we are assuming a freeze time today of 8pm based on past experience. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message