Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:28:17 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: jlemon@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet fil.c ip_auth.c ip_auth.h ip_compat.h ip_fil.c ip_fil.h ip_frag.c ip_frag.h ip_ftp_pxy. Message-ID: <200106071428.f57ESJU01095@lists.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <20010607065857X.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <200106071328.XAA07291@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au>
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As a non-committer I feel compelled to write so that ya'll know the point of view of a non-developer. On 7 Jun 2001, at 6:58, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > From: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au> > Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet fil.c ip_auth.c ip_auth.h > ip_compat.h ip_fil.c ip_fil.h ip_frag.c ip_frag.h ip_ftp_pxy.c > Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 23:28:48 +1000 (EST) > > > Upgrading IPFilter without upgrading FreeBSD. Users seem inclined to do > > this inbetween when I update the source tree (usually because I'm > > Those aren't users, those are developers. The kind of users we tend > to deal with wouldn't know how to selectively update part of FreeBSD > (much less build it from source) if you held a gun to their heads. I'm a developer? WOO HOO! Where's my commit bit? I have upgraded ipfilter many times outside of FreeBSD upgrades. I know many other people do it as well. It happens more frequently than the paragraph above infers. > More to the point, the project actively discourages this kind of > "upgrading" because for any particular bit of software, be it IPFilter or > sendmail, we can't say anything authoritative about how well it's going to > integrate in the face of other changes and that's exactly why one shouldn't > upgrade piecemeal. I guess I shouldn't have been. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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