Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:46:20 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Fergus Cameron <tofergus@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: testing point releases Message-ID: <20020924194620.GD67861@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20020924132437.GA4335@pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk> References: <20020924132437.GA4335@pooh.blahdeblah.demon.co.uk>
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--xB0nW4MQa6jZONgY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 02:24:38PM +0100, Fergus Cameron wrote: > i'm pretty new to current so perhaps this in naive but are there any > point releases for testing --- i.e. releases that are known to build > properly?=20 The Developer Preview #2 should be out sometime in the next month or two. Aside from that you can just watch mailing list traffic and wait for periods of quiet (and then update to the source tree from a few days previously) > do you really need to be on top of it all to work off of current ? (i.e. > i should know where to go back to) Well, you do need to have some kind of exit strategy if things go wrong. That can be as crude as 'reinstall the system from your 4.6-R disks', but if you want to struggle through the periodic problems you'll need some technical knowledge. Kris --xB0nW4MQa6jZONgY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9kMEMWry0BWjoQKURAttRAKDMOyiA2cW0aBWWGIf5fOI7bKeH2wCfWqeb C4SCbaRe1bc2F6VmA+opREI= =OV0Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xB0nW4MQa6jZONgY-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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