Re: a few questions and concepts

2006-04-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-07 19:11, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 16:34, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: so, the past couple of days, i have learned to cvsup my /usr/src directories. ive just been using the standard copy of the stable-supfile. i have learned that if i

Re: a few questions and concepts

2006-04-10 Thread RW
On Saturday 08 April 2006 05:16, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Leading source code committers are typically always working on the Next Big Thing(tm), which is known as -HEAD in CVS, and often called (and officially, even, called) -CURRENT in FreeBSD. Most users, though, are using the Last Big

Re: a few questions and concepts

2006-04-08 Thread bsd
On Friday 07 April 2006 16:34, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-04-07 15:54, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im still pretty new to freebsd. ive been playing around with the cvsup tools, and they are quite fascinating. i changed my production server from Fedora to FreeBSD 6.0,

Re: a few questions and concepts

2006-04-08 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Robert Huff wrote: Kevin Kinsey writes: It's somewhat interesting (to me) that the even numbered releases seem to have had longer and perhaps more successful runs than the odd numbered ones. 5.X, in particular, seemed short to me. Two comments: 1) Sample size = 2.

Re: a few questions and concepts

2006-04-08 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin Kinsey writes: It's somewhat interesting (to me) that the even numbered releases seem to have had longer and perhaps more successful runs than the odd numbered ones. 5.X, in particular, seemed short to me. Two comments: 1) Sample size = 2. You may need to

a few questions and concepts

2006-04-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
im still pretty new to freebsd. ive been playing around with the cvsup tools, and they are quite fascinating. i changed my production server from Fedora to FreeBSD 6.0, about 1 day before the most recent sendmail exploit was published (well, published on freebsd.org anyway). i did download the

Re: a few questions and concepts

2006-04-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-04-07 15:54, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im still pretty new to freebsd. ive been playing around with the cvsup tools, and they are quite fascinating. i changed my production server from Fedora to FreeBSD 6.0, about 1 day before the most recent sendmail exploit was

Re: a few questions and concepts

2006-04-07 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Friday 07 April 2006 16:34, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2006-04-07 15:54, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im still pretty new to freebsd. ive been playing around with the cvsup tools, and they are quite fascinating. i changed my production server from Fedora to FreeBSD 6.0,

Re: a few questions and concepts

2006-04-07 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Jonathan Horne wrote: On Friday 07 April 2006 16:34, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: i can definatly see the benefits of using cvsup to take care of problem with some things (like sendmail), but allowing it to update everything under the /usr/src tree, im wondering if i could be setting myself up

Re: a few questions and concepts

2006-04-07 Thread Robert Huff
Kevin Kinsey writes: It's somewhat interesting (to me) that the even numbered releases seem to have had longer and perhaps more successful runs than the odd numbered ones. 5.X, in particular, seemed short to me. Two comments: 1) Sample size = 2. 2) 4 has run long