From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 1 20:18:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4909F37B400 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 20:18:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8531843E6A for ; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 20:18:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (localhost.marcuscom.com [127.0.0.1]) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g723IuVY087513; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:18:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g723IutQ087510; Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:18:56 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 23:18:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Brad Laue Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: glib12 port build failure in -stable (update) In-Reply-To: <3D49F8B6.4050204@brad-x.com> Message-ID: <20020801231558.P87489-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I hate to go on a rant, but -STABLE broke three times yesterday, too - > this is -STABLE, why is this happening all of a sudden? I'm supposed to > be able to put implicit faith in it! Well, the security branch (RELENG_4_6 for example) is more "stable" and changes much less frequently. For any production server, I would recommend using those branches rather than -stable. > > I don't think there should be much room for error in the -STABLE branch; > too much is riding on it. Four hours of troubleshooting an apache server > which was down for the count. What is it they say about time being money? > Again, don't go with -stable then. The security branch is moderated by the security officer, and thus all changes going into it need to be justified. Joe > Anyway, enough of me flaming, I'm just a little surprised, is all. > > I meant to send the first reply to the list, sorry. > > -- > // -- http://www.BRAD-X.com/ -- // > > > > > PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message