Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:23:00 -0500 (EST) From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA> To: Matt White <mwhite@donet.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: cvsup frequency? Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.990331102133.11167D-100000@spi11.jsp.umontreal.ca> In-Reply-To: <000201be7b78$2249b3a0$0402030a@yiff.bunnynet.org>
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yes... That's one thing I was asking myself, as I do regular cvsup without making the world each time, as it would imply shutting down the box... Do several buildworlds diminish the time of the next ones if we keep the /usr/obj dir? On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Matt White wrote: > Hello; > > To add my two cents, I don't cvsup until right before I build the world. > > Why? > > Well, I've been burned by this before. I used to cvsup on a regular basis - > every week or so. However, I don't build the world that often, say once a > month. > > I had a big problem - my source was out of sync with the binaries, and in > particular, my kernel source was out of sync for the kernel I was running. > This became a big problem when my NIC died. > > I popped in another NIC I had laying around, and went to build a new kernel > with support for it. So far, so good. But then on a reboot everything fell > apart - top, who and numerous other utils wouldn't work. Why? The kernel > format had changed just a slight amount, and it broke stuff. > > At this point I was stuck trying to cvsup and build the world again just to > get the NIC working... what was suppose to be a quick and simple repair > become a full evening worth of work. > > To prevent this again I cvsup and then immediately turn around and build the > world. My life has been much easier ever since. =) > > My two cents. > > Matt > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Deborah Hooker > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 1999 5:07 PM > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Subject: cvsup frequency? > > > > I'm running 3.1-STABLE on a box that I depend on, but that isn't > mission critical (seems like a good description of a box that should > be running -STABLE, from what I've seen). How often does it make > sense to cvsup/make world? (Not counting when I see particular fixes > that I want to incorporate.) I'm thinking about just on a regular > basis sort of tracking of stable, here. > > Suggestions? > > -Deb > > -- > I'm a bitch, I'm a tease, I'm a goddess on my knees... | deb@pobox.com > ____ > "For extra fun, pop eyeball out of eye socket!" _______| DoD#0034 __\_ > / > May your soul be celebrating in Valhalla before | Big Wet Sleepy Eyes \ // > the Christian God notices that you're dead. | Of A Tree Nymph \/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > Spidey Jesus died for his own sins. Not mine. (CRASS, 1978) http://www.jsp.umontreal.ca/~beaupran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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