Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:47:02 +1000 From: "Robert" <robert@chalmers.com.au> To: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Further question Re: cvsupped to RELENG_4 but got 4.3-RC Message-ID: <EJEPLCEELLLLAMPNEJMHOEPMCNAA.robert@chalmers.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104042315160.7158-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>
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There may be some value in the multiple servers case, of running one as a cvs server, and updating all the others off that one. Then all your servers are reflections of the one that is cvsupping the -> remote-cvs-server just a thought. Bob > > > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Brian D. Woodruff wrote: > > > At 10:35 PM 4/4/01 -0400, you wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 09:32:39PM -0500, Brian D. Woodruff wrote: > > > > Here are my questions: > > > > > > > > 1.) is there a way to specify 4.2-STABLE, which is what I > have been using? > > > > can anyone tell me how to get the STABLE version I want? > > > > I would rather be consistent across my servers than have some be one > > release past the others. > > If you're using CVS to get RELENG_4 at different points in time, even if > they're all 4.2-STABLE, your servers will NOT be consistent anyway. The > -STABLE branch is a stream, in constant development. If you update your > sources via CVS to build one server, then the next day update sources > again to build another server, the two servers will be different. This is > the essence of -STABLE, even though it seems to contradict the meaning of > the word "stable". :-) > > If you require absolute consistency across servers, you need to either > update all servers from the very same source, or specify an exact CVS tag > to get the same sources for all servers. > > And if it doesn't bother you that your servers are on different points of > 4.2-STABLE, then 4.3-RC is just another point a little farther down the > development stream. I'd actually consider the -RC to be safer bet than > the average -STABLE. > > Ken > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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