From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 14 02:07:09 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id CAA11846 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 02:07:09 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id CAA11830 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 02:07:01 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA02388; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:06:40 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id LAA23705; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 11:06:39 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA16825; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 10:03:04 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199504140803.KAA16825@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: How to acquire SNAP To: kimc@w8hd.w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 1995 10:03:03 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Kim Culhan" at Apr 13, 95 05:20:33 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1101 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)