From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 13 12:54:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45C2916A410 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:54:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1273813C4C1 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:54:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l6DCsp57068298; Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:54:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from mdt-xp.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.8/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l6DCso3G080471 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:54:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <200707131254.l6DCso3G080471@lava.sentex.ca> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 7.1.0.9 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:54:22 -0400 To: Brett Glass , stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <200707130657.AAA26213@lariat.net> References: <200707121631.KAA13394@lariat.net> <200707121954.l6CJsaCI075656@lava.sentex.ca> <200707130657.AAA26213@lariat.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Cc: Subject: Re: Best release or snapshot to install? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:54:52 -0000 At 09:38 PM 7/12/2007, Brett Glass wrote: >Since I am not a FreeBSD developer (though I've fed folks snippets >of code to incorporate from time to time), I don't have a full time >"build" server. Where is the best way to download a daily/weekly >snapshot? ftp.freebsd.org seems only to have one snapshot per >month, and does not have one for this month yet. (Hopefully, >when they post one, it will have the archive bug fixed.) Download and install 6.2R. The just cvsup upto the day you want. In general, and especially in the last while, RELENG_6 seems to have been quite conservative in MFC'ing code. I cant think of anything that got merged back that was disastrous. I have quite a few boxes that track RELENG_6 and have had good results to date. ---Mike >--Brett > >At 01:54 PM 7/12/2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > >I would say from today. > > > > ---Mike