Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:29:43 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> To: Guilherme Oliveira <guilherme@nortenet.pt>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_4 buildworld errors Message-ID: <87590000.1001734182@vpn35.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <3BB53E26.63309A60@nortenet.pt> References: <3BB53E26.63309A60@nortenet.pt>
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On Saturday, September 29, 2001 04:21:11 +0100, Guilherme Oliveira <guilherme@nortenet.pt> wrote: +----- | Another question: Why is freebsd so suspetible to these build errors ? | Makefiles, users, me ?! :) +--->8 If you think about it, "cvsup" is just a faster version of "cvs update". So you're getting the absolute latest bits... which may be being updated by someone else, since CVS (and therefore cvsup) don't really have any conception of repository consistency across updates to multiple files. CVS also doesn't provide a way to save a change in a "checked in for testing but not fully committed" state which would allow testers to verify that a change works in many environments before fully committing it for general access. (One could do this with branches... except that CVS also has some serious shortcomings in merging branches.) While developers try hard to test things before committing them, you can still get "surprises" in the tree. -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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