From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 27 19:40:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA00346 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (SRI-56K-FR.mt.net [206.127.65.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA00341 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 19:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA02500; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:39:49 -0600 (MDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA28656; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:39:46 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:39:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199709280239.UAA28656@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Greg Lehey Cc: Nate Williams , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do I check out a snapshot? In-Reply-To: <19970928105411.00690@lemis.com> References: <199709272233.QAA27878@rocky.mt.sri.com> <199709272247.QAA28003@rocky.mt.sri.com> <19970928105411.00690@lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I still don't see the problem. CVS already has the solution: the RE > selects a certain date for the snap, basically whatever he wants. Yeah, right. "OK, on Saturday, everything must work right, caue that's when I'm building the SNAP." *sarcasm on* How about it Jordan, seems reasonable and should work fine, right? *sarcasm off* > He waits for the time to pass, pulls a copy of the repository (though > this is not really necessary), and then checks out -current as of the > time he decided for the snap. And if it doesn't work, then what? He fixes bugs, and whiles he fixing them someone else is introducing new ones. The idea behind SNAPS is they're supposed to be fairly easy to produce, so going through the same gyrations as what is required for RELEASES shouldn't have to be done. If the world were a perfect place it would work fine, but it isn't. Nate