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Date:      Fri, 25 Apr 1997 22:10:00 +1000 (EST)
From:      Ernie Elu <ernie@eis.net.au>
To:        jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Compiling cvsup, what a joke
Message-ID:  <199704251210.WAA03571@tinny.eis.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <6509.861967719@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 25, 97 04:28:39 am

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> 
> > > Your machines are either misconfigured or you simply do not know what
>     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> > They are all stock 2.2.-RELEASE machines with the bin and src distributions
> > installed.
> 
> Which by no means implies that they are configured with the right
> amount of swap space, memory and other resources to be *development*
> machines (e.g. compile large things like modula3, a very definite
> development activity). Since the "(A)uto" defaults do not configure
> for a development machine, development machines *not* being the most
> common configurations despite what some hackers might wish to believe,
> if you're not specifically making sure that the box is appropriately
> configured for these activities then yes, things will fall over just
> as you'd expect them to on a misconfigured box.
> 
> The default configuration, for historical and statistical reasons, is
> a mid-range desktop box.  No huge compiles or enormous applications
> expected, just what you'd expect to do with a modest (<16MB) amount of
> memory and a space-conservative amount of swap.  Your home test
> machine probably has more memory and/or swap space configured than the
> other boxes and so it just happened to work out of the box for you.
> 
> 					Jordan
> 

Right, so what you are saying is gone are the days of keeping current with
the -stable tree unless you either install the bin distributions regularly
or have a machine configured as a "development machine".

Fair enough.

A loss of the ease of upgrade we had in the past, thats all.

- Ernie.




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