On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:45:22AM -0500, Chris Bennett wrote: > I am going to give this guy a possible useful hint. > > -current for my laptop is TOTALLY BROKEN right now. > I am building a modified version of -current right now. > > This version may or may NOT work. > > -current is OFTEN BROKEN. > -current is often broken just for certain particular computers. > -current often breaks packages only. These packages may need to be modified > and re-compiled! > > -current is great, but very risky. You may do everything perfect and still > get a broken system! > > If you fail to boot and get > ddb> > > or it freezes up without warning, you will have to fix those problems. > > Sometimes -current works perfectly, sometimes not. > > Chris Bennett >
Odd. I've been running -current, upgrading various architectures almost weekly, for more than a decade. I can't recall more than a couple of times where -current wasn't working. It does happen, but rarely and usually only for a very particular set of machines. e.g. with a particular driver. .... Ken
