On Mar 6, 2010, at 1:57 AM, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote:
So your system is approx. 4 months old, despite you cvsup-ping?
I don't know what do you mean.
Normally, FBSD issues new STABLE RELEASE once a year (approx).
Whenever new release or new branch is available,
I shall do either wget iso images, or cvsup/csup and buildworld.
The time between RELEASEs, there are patches.
But FBSD teams stated that those patches are not well tested
comparing to RELEASE.
So I do not update the system until new STABLE RELEASE is available
again.
Things going into -CURRENT may not be "well tested", but anything
being merged back to -STABLE ought to be. Humans make mistakes, but I
can't recall more than two or maybe three significant issues over a
decade tracking -STABLE, and these were fixed in a matter of hours.
If you do care about this level of precision, you should be building
to a test platform and then running sanity checks for whatever your
machines do before upgrading production boxes, anyway.
Beyond that, however, you ought to consider tracking the security
branch, ie, RELENG_8_0, rather than 8-STABLE aka RELENG_8, as the
former does include recommended changes like security bugfixes, but
avoids merging in anything which has not been "well tested".
Regards,
--
-Chuck
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