Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 21:59:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Richard Stanaford <rsstan@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Synching my src... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007082158510.93656-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000709034629.17975.qmail@web3103.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Sat, 8 Jul 2000, Richard Stanaford wrote:
> I will probably need to pull most of the src tree in order to go
> STABLE from 4.0-RELEASE and that is a seven hour download across a 56K
> dialup connection... a significant investment of time. So you can
> understand my caution.
Well, suppose you pick a bad date to grab the sources. After your 7 hour
initial investment, it becomes a 5 minute additional investment to update
to a later date where it's fixed :-)
Kris
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