From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 9 16:22:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A197A37B423 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 16:22:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f39NMck17828 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:22:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 19:22:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Bob K To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: supfile idea (was Re: Releases) In-Reply-To: <15058.15825.422218.278218@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: [snip] > Matthew Emmerton types: > > In the case of people running -CURRENT on a production machine, that's just > > a plain and simple mistake. Ever wonder how someone who barely knows how to > > use cvsup and make world manages to obtain -CURRENT in the first place? > > No, because it happens to everyone who uses the standard-supfile in > the /usr/share/examples/cvsup. I think that stable-supfile should > vanish from that directory, and standard-supfile should be right for > the branch the system came from, no matter which branch that was. [snip] I'm not going to touch on the rest of the thread, but that idea seems like an extremely good one. How 'bout putting this in once 4.3's gone out the door? -- Bob | "Villain, I have done thy mother" - Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, act IV, scene II To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message