Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 00:06:56 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> To: jkh@osd.bsdi.com (Jordan Hubbard) Cc: darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au, jlemon@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet fil.c ip_auth.c ip_auth.h ip_compat.h ip_fil.c ip_fil.h ip_frag.c ip_frag.h ip_ftp_pxy.c Message-ID: <200106071406.AAA07369@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20010607065857X.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> from Jordan Hubbard at "Jun 7, 1 06:58:57 am"
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In some email I received from Jordan Hubbard, sie wrote: > From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet fil.c ip_auth.c ip_auth.h ip_compat.h ip_fil.c ip_fil.h ip_frag.c ip_frag.h ip_ftp_pxy.c > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 23:28:48 +1000 (EST) > > > Upgrading IPFilter without upgrading FreeBSD. Users seem inclined to > > do this inbetween when I update the source tree (usually because I'm > > Those aren't users, those are developers. The kind of users we tend > to deal with wouldn't know how to selectively update part of FreeBSD > (much less build it from source) if you held a gun to their heads. ok. > More to the point, the project actively discourages this kind of > "upgrading" because for any particular bit of software, be it IPFilter > or sendmail, we can't say anything authoritative about how well it's > going to integrate in the face of other changes and that's exactly why > one shouldn't upgrade piecemeal. Sounds reasonable to me. > Developers who know all of this but have the cojones to do it anyway > because they know exactly what all of the inter-relationships are > won't be thrown in the slightest by this change. They're already used > to things moving around in the tree and compared to the amount of > knowledge necessary for ensuring that taking one of your slip-stream > upgrades won't be a big mistake, this is a truly minor thing to need > to know about. I'm happy with that and I'm sure they'll learn to deal. Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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