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Date:      Fri, 14 Apr 1995 10:03:03 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        kimc@w8hd.w8hd.org (Kim Culhan)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How to acquire SNAP
Message-ID:  <199504140803.KAA16825@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.91.950413171407.29213A-100000@w8hd.w8hd.org> from "Kim Culhan" at Apr 13, 95 05:20:33 pm

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As Kim Culhan wrote:
> 
> I have run a complete 'make world -k' here before without a hitch so is it 
> best to get up to the latest snap level and then rely on sup to get the
> updates and rebuild?

This is certainly a decision to make.  Either you want to run the
semi-official SNAP `releases', or you run something like -current (or
a few days behind).  Since you've succesfully compiled your new stuff,
it seems to be a waste of bandwidth to suck the SNAP across the wire
again -- but you won't run SNAP then, just ``-current as of
XX/XX/95''.

Both will have its pros and cons.  SNAPs are only being released at a
time where -current seems to be somewhat stable.  (That's why the
`Happy birthday SNAP' has been cancelled.)  With -current, you can
immediately participate in any bug fix, improvement, or tree breakage
that happens in the development cycle.  You'll be among the first to
see new features, but also among the first to see new panics. :-]

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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