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Date:      Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:06:45 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: build machines (Re: Who built XFree86 with Kerberos?) 
Message-ID:  <199811110006.QAA01634@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:02:46 PST." <199811110002.QAA12804@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> 

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>  * > That means we are going to mount this partition from other machines
>  * > while doing builds, right?  Do we trust our NFS that much?
>  * 
>  * Should do.  If we find out we're wrong, then we better get it fixed, 
>  * hmm?
> 
> We better, yes.  Whether we can, that's another story.  (Who was that
> (Garrett?) that said something about willingness and ability....)
> 
> However, I would rather not have our package building-ability hinge on
> a known-to-be-flaky subsystem.  Correct me if I'm wrong, but the
> problems with NFS has not been exactly solved, right?

No, not all of them have been solved.  However many of them have, and
it's worth at least *attempting* to deploy a subsystem we expect our
customers to use.  If it backfires, and we can't resolve the issue, 
then we can redistribute things.  In the interim, I think this is worth 
trying.


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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
\\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\  end it's only with yourself.  \\  msmith@cdrom.com



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