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Date:      Sat, 7 Dec 2002 10:44:11 +1300
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
To:        Mark Hittinger <bugs@pu.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: update strategies
Message-ID:  <20021206214411.GA571@grimoire.chen.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <200212061933.gB6JXNfj064196@p233.pu.net>
References:  <200212061933.gB6JXNfj064196@p233.pu.net>

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On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:33:22PM -0600, Mark Hittinger wrote:

[...]
> Its also worth thinking about your backups and when you cvsup.  I mirror my
> system disks prior to cvsup so that the backup has binaries/sources in
> sync.  Again, this is much more important to do on -current because you
> never know. :-)  - but still worth doing on -stable.

So true. It's even more important when you find out that the latest cvsup
you have has broken the compiler tool-chain; meaning that your installed
(broken) compiler can't build it's way out of trouble. Recovering means
restoring system binaries from backup, or using another machine's /usr/obj
to make installworld...

Cheers.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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