Marc G. Fournier wrote: > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > >> On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:55:48 -0500 >> Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
It is not that you should not track it but where you should be tracking/testing it. Not on critical production servers would be a good start ;-) -- tonym _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
