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Date:      Mon, 09 Apr 2001 19:50:15 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Conrad Sabatier <conrads@home.com>
To:        Bob K <melange@yip.org>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: supfile idea (was Re: Releases)
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010409195015.conrads@home.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104091916360.88125-100000@pi.yip.org>

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On 09-Apr-2001 Bob K wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Mike Meyer wrote:
> 
> [snip]
>> Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> 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?

I think it might be better, perhaps, to rename standard-supfile to something
like unstable-supfile (unstable-supfile-use-at-your-own-risk? :-), and leave
stable-supfile alone.  That should be enough to ward off the wary.

-- 
Conrad Sabatier
conrads@home.com


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