From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 30 07:27:51 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9BA37B401; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:27:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.cordis.lu (mail.cordis.lu [212.190.217.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6AE743F3F; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 07:27:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from a.carter@cordis.lu) Received: from mailsvr.intrasoft.lu (mail.intrasoft.lu [212.190.217.251]) by mail.cordis.lu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h3UEc01d013198; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:38:00 +0200 Received: by mail.intrasoft.lu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2656.59) id ; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:23:49 +0200 Received: from 212.190.217.170 ([212.190.217.170]) by mailsvr.intrasoft.lu with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2656.59) id JS23BYP4; Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:23:38 +0200 From: CARTER Anthony To: "Simon L. Nielsen" , Ben Laurie Organization: Intrasoft Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:27:53 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 References: <20030429172729.GI390@nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20030429172729.GI390@nitro.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304301627.53112.a.carter@intrasoft.lu> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-131.9 required=4.2 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_KMAIL,USER_IN_WHITELIST version=2.53 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tracking -CURRENT [was Re: URGENT HELP REQUIRED] X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:27:51 -0000 I am tracking current, I would have presumed that this would be sufficient to know what was going on...To be part of CVS-up as well would mean probably another 100-200 mails a night that I don't particularly use... Thanks for the advice, I may look into cvs-up, but I think that current (seeing as that is what I am running) would have mentioned this a little more. Besides, didn't even know about cvs-up... Anthony On Tuesday 29 April 2003 19:27, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2003.04.29 18:17:24 +0100, Ben Laurie wrote: > > John Baldwin wrote: > > > Might I suggest that you run -stable for a while until you are a bit > > > more familiar with FreeBSD? The deprecation of DRM_LINUX was > > clearly > > > > pointed out on the cvs-all@ when it happend, and people tracking > > > current really should be reading cvs-all@. > > > > So why does the website say people tracking current should really be > > reading freebsd-current (and not mention cvs-all)? > > Where does it say that ? The handbook mentions both : > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable > .html#AEN26734 > > From the above page : > > "Join the freebsd-current and the cvs-all lists. This is not just a good > idea, it is essential."