From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 2 01:22:05 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA20086 for current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 01:22:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA20076 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 01:22:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA01304; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:21:24 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA03073; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:21:19 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id KAA21312; Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:12:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610020812.KAA21312@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Keeping up with this thing To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 1996 10:12:28 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: rwm@MPGN.COM (Rob Miracle) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610020146.VAA18241@Central.KeyWest.MPGN.COM> from Rob Miracle at "Oct 1, 96 09:46:35 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Rob Miracle wrote: > I read the FAQ and the handbook and I still have some confusion about > how to keep my system semi recent without catching things in a state > of flux. By subscribing to freebsd-current@freebsd.org, and rebuilding the systems only if you are feeling that the chances for a working environment are good. Sacrifice the disk space for the CVS tree. This gives you the option to update parts of the system to a known date, or to pull just a single fix that you are seriously needing, without risking too much by upgrading everything. If you want a stable system, never upgrade, but only apply those bug fixes you know you need. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)