Am I an Idiot?

David Stanford dthomas53 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 9 12:38:10 PST 2006


It has been some years since running -current on any critical production
> server, but I have never had any qualms about doing so on a system I use
> constantly. In some cases that includes what are essentially
> "production" systems in that they support use for development and
> pre-deployment internal to an organisation or project and while not
> serving a critical role they are still heavily relied upon (and some of
> those systems also run applications built from HEAD branch of their
> respective repositories).
>
> However there is always sufficient expertise around to handle the bumps
> and inconveniences associated with -current including working around
> long-standing problems on -current that occasionally do occur (inability
> to run threaded apps compiled in 6.x, for example, where upgrade via
> rebuild is not an option - a problem which I've never personally had to
> address since 100% of what I run on a BSD box is open source).
>
> Scanning this list regularly is almost a requirement when running
> -current, although src/UPDATING will get you ~50% of what you need to
> know.
>
>
This is a somewhat OT question, but what needs to be done to turn off the
on-by-default debugging features when running -CURRENT?

Just curious...

-David
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