Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 11:39:25 -0600 From: "pura life CR" <puralifecr@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Daily FreeBSD updates (was: Re: priority on rc script caused panic) Message-ID: <BAY22-F27EzEPAxJe8A000192c1@hotmail.com>
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>From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
>To: pura life CR <puralifecr@hotmail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Daily FreeBSD updates (was: Re: priority on rc script caused
panic)
>Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:57:24 +0300
>
>On 2004-07-19 10:58, pura life CR <puralifecr@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> I regularly (almost daily) upgrade my CURRENT installation and
the
> >> set of commands I use when the single user shell fires up is:
> >>
> >> adjkerntz -i # allow system time updates to work
> >> swapon -a # enable all swap partitions
> >> fsck -p # check any filesystems that need it
> >> mount -u / # remount root fs as read-write
> >> mount /usr # mount /usr as read-write
> >>
> >> cd /usr/src # upgrade sequence
> >> make installworld # - // -
> >> mergemaster # - // -
> >
> > This should not be done.
> >
> > You dont really need to upgrade daily, you are just overloading
freebsd
> > cvsup servers.
>
>That's not true...
>
>I'm running FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT. Keeping a local CVS mirror which is
>updated once a day and test build/run on my machine is the least I
can
>do to help in testing the -CURRENT branch. The mirror I use is the
one
>that is closest to me (cvsup2.gr.freebsd.org).
[snip]
My comment is still applicable. If you just run a cvs mirror,
just fetch the source code. You dont need to test to know whether if
compiles or not. I think noone really helps to freebsd by compiling
the source code every day looking for errors. It is better to test and
contribute code.
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