On 5/26/25 09:14, Michael Gmelin wrote:
On Mon, 26 May 2025 08:25:50 -0400
Dennis Clarke <dcla...@blastwave.org> wrote:
I have no idea what "MFC" is supposed to mean.
I guess it is a code change that happened somewhere.
Merge From Current = Merging or back-porting a base commit from CURRENT
(main/base/HEAD) to another, usually lower, FreeBSD version branch.
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Glossary#MFC_--_Merge_From_Current
-m
So many places with special terms and stuff buried somewhere. In the
last week or so I have discovered https://archive.freebsd.org/ and now
there is https://wiki.freebsd.org/ which I have not ever seen once in
five or six years of trying to use FreeBSD. Maybe a link or something
can be put on the "About" page? https://www.freebsd.org/about/
Even more crazy is the way in which FreeBSD is changed and/or fixed.
There are bug reports of course but it seems everything really happens
in a thing called a Phabricator.
It really is a great UNIX implementation and runs like a charm as a
server but the skills required are all over the place and no where and
everywhere and yeah ... thanks to this mail list I can at least keep a
few things running. To quote a really cool guy that is an expert at such
things "If it breaks you can keep both pieces."
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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken
