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Date:      Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:39:02 +0200
From:      "Leif Neland" <leifn@neland.dk>
To:        "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>, "Idea Receiver" <receiver@RedDust.BlueSky.net.au>, "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: Build breakage (was: fail to compile kernel...)
Message-ID:  <06e001c004fa$39e94d60$0e00a8c0@neland.dk>
References:  <14742.14082.837564.871879@guru.mired.org><Pine.BSF.4.10.10008131504560.77390-100000@RedDust.BlueSky.net.au><200008130553.XAA06673@harmony.village.org> <14742.15675.412839.269577@guru.mired.org>

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> I didn't mean to finger you particularly. It's just a bit upsetting to
> realize that I can't remember the last time I managed to do an update
> to -current without some kind of breakage. I realize that -current
> isn't guaranteed to build, but that's a bit ridiculous. I mean - I was
> pleasantly surprised that I could build the world first time out. To
> find the kernel breaking for a module that I have no absolutely no use
> for on this machine was a bit upsetting.
>
> I'm beginning to wonder if I shouldn't use -stable as a buffer, and
> just let the committers deals with things not being up to -current. Or
> maybe check to see if the other *BSD's aren't a bit more demanding of
> committers.
>
What if the machine building snapshots took a note of the time it cvsup'ped.
Then if the build succeded, it would append this date to a file.
We could then feed this date to our cvsup, to get a version which at least
compiled.

Leif





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