Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:44:11 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Mark Hittinger <bugs@pu.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: update strategies Message-ID: <20021206214411.GA571@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200212061933.gB6JXNfj064196@p233.pu.net> References: <200212061933.gB6JXNfj064196@p233.pu.net>
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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:33:22PM -0600, Mark Hittinger wrote:
[...]
> 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.
So true. It's even more important when you find out that the latest cvsup
you have has broken the compiler tool-chain; meaning that your installed
(broken) compiler can't build it's way out of trouble. Recovering means
restoring system binaries from backup, or using another machine's /usr/obj
to make installworld...
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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