From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 25 9:56: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com [213.105.93.214]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16F5837B406 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:55:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) Received: (from root@localhost) by pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6PGtWE11721; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:55:32 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from freeloader.freeserve.co.uk (alpha.private [192.168.0.2]) (authenticated) by pc1-cove4-0-cust214.bir.cable.ntl.com (8.11.3/8.11.3av) with ESMTP id f6PGtOq11714; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:55:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ianjhart@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk) Message-ID: <3B5EF9FC.59D74A05@freeloader.freeserve.co.uk> Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 17:55:24 +0100 From: ian j hart X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fred Gilham Cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: cvsup References: <200107251610.f6PGAfP16264@quarter.csl.sri.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-10 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 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- ian j hart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message