Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:55:24 +0100 From: ian j hart <ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> To: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com> Cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <3B5EF9FC.59D74A05@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> References: <200107251610.f6PGAfP16264@quarter.csl.sri.com>
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Fred Gilham wrote:
>
> > The practice I am beginning to follow (and what seems to be the most common
> > practice) is:
> >
> > a) cvsup weekly
> > b) check the -stable list daily for any interesting new merges (AKA MFC's)
> > c) if I see an new security fixes, or anything that sounds like it would
> > affect my system in a positive manner, build world.
> >
>
> I used to do something like this. But I finally decided that step a)
> is unnecessary, and the cvsup should be folded into step c). Why
> cvsup weekly if you're not going to build it? A good reason NOT to is
> that most of the time your sources won't match your system,
> potentially making it harder to debug your system if you have
> problems. Another reason is to not bog down the cvsup servers.
Not to mention the fact that you cannot rebuild the kernel until
you {build,install}world. By the principle of an infinite number of
monkeys, you will at some point forget and shoot yourself in the foot.
A local copy of the source repository is "the answer to everything"(TM).
Useful^n.
My 0.02 euro, don't update source tree without build world.
>
> --
> Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com
> [My tutors] got bored sooner than I, and laid down a general rule
> that all statements about languages had to be in a higher level
> language. I thereupon asked in what level of language that rule was
> formulated. I got a very bad report. -- J. R. Lucas
>
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