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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2006 01:37:53 -0300 (ADT)
From:      "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@freebsd.org>
To:        Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ARRRRGH!  Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!
Message-ID:  <20060914012316.V1031@ganymede.hub.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060912171617.556a43cc.steve@sohara.org>
References:  <20060909173813.GA1388@FS.denninger.net> <45065C67.6040503@cs.tu-berlin.de> <20060912141547.GA11713@FS.denninger.net> <4506D884.4050605@scls.lib.wi.us> <20060912171617.556a43cc.steve@sohara.org>

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On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:55:48 -0500
> Greg Barniskis <nalists@scls.lib.wi.us> wrote:
>
>> If you /track/ STABLE by frequently cvsupping it and rebuilding your
>> system, you will very likely encounter a serious problem sooner or
>> later. That's why tracking it is not recommended for production
>> systems.
>
> 	I did exactly that all the way from 2.0 to 4.11 on various machines
> without ever having any trouble.

Ditto ... in fact, I do that on my desktop and have yet to hit a problem 
... -STABLE *is* generally very stable ...

Stupid question here ... if -STABLE shouldn't be tracked, who exactly is 
doing testing on it?  Those doing "the work" on -CURRENT, I would imagine, 
are tracking -CURRENT, and testing the code put in there for bugs ... when 
deemed 'bug free', then its being MFCd to -STABLE, but if those of us that 
*are* tracking -STABLE stop'd tracking it ... who would be testing it?

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