Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 09:10:41 -0700 From: Fred Gilham <gilham@csl.sri.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup Message-ID: <200107251610.f6PGAfP16264@quarter.csl.sri.com> In-Reply-To: Message from "Derek C." <coffee@blarg.net> of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:12:21 PDT." <5.1.0.14.0.20010724221005.02ec5598@mail.blarg.net>
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> The practice I am beginning to follow (and what seems to be the most common > practice) is: > > a) cvsup weekly > b) check the -stable list daily for any interesting new merges (AKA MFC's) > c) if I see an new security fixes, or anything that sounds like it would > affect my system in a positive manner, build world. > I used to do something like this. But I finally decided that step a) is unnecessary, and the cvsup should be folded into step c). Why cvsup weekly if you're not going to build it? A good reason NOT to is that most of the time your sources won't match your system, potentially making it harder to debug your system if you have problems. Another reason is to not bog down the cvsup servers. -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com [My tutors] got bored sooner than I, and laid down a general rule that all statements about languages had to be in a higher level language. I thereupon asked in what level of language that rule was formulated. I got a very bad report. -- J. R. Lucas To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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