From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 1 15:04:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20394 for current-outgoing; Thu, 1 May 1997 15:04:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA20262; Thu, 1 May 1997 15:03:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (cod.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA27175; Thu, 1 May 1997 17:03:15 -0500 (CDT) X-Sender: rkw@shrimp.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <26101.862521743@time.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Fri, 02 May 1997 07:06:14 +1000." <199705012106.HAA25766@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 17:03:08 -0500 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: -current build is now broken.. Cc: Bruce Evans , bde@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 4:22 PM -0500 5/1/97, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >Pureness of heart and a strong ideology are all well and good, but the >current constraints are still valid and there's no excuse for not >operating within the parameters established by the build/release system we >have. If a release worked "yesterday" and breaks today then the blame >does not fall on the system itself, it falls on whomever broke it between >yesterday and today. :-) > > Jordan Please omit the ":-)". :-) As some of my friends who say, you are "spot on". However that does not excuse the effort to make the system easier to avoid the "gotcha"'s.