Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 22:04:13 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Conrad Sabatier" <conrads@home.com>, "Bob K" <melange@yip.org> Cc: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: supfile idea (was Re: Releases) Message-ID: <008901c0c162$8a684960$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <XFMail.20010409195015.conrads@home.com>
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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 like the idea of stable-supfile, so it should stay. standard-supfile should *definitely* refer to the -REL in which it is a part of. In that case, a novice user who doesn't change anything would end up cvsup'ing code that they already have on their system or on CD - no harm done. Further, they'd actually have to RTFM to figure out what tags to use to get what they really want. -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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