Head build unsafe for /etc today

[Rodney W. Grimes]

> On 11/2/2017 8:58 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
> > FreeBSD has grown too big to test every possible thing before you commit.

I would say that it has always been too big to test every possible
thing before a commit.  Breakage is just going to happen, we make
great efforts to minimize it, but like all risks sooner or later
your gona have a failure.

> 
> The build itself is massive.  I usually forget about release/ and the
> new 'make packages', external toolchain, "old style" kernel builds, etc.
Good starting list for "make build-regresion" ?

> 
> Steve's concerns have validity.   I do think it's time we have an
> automated suite to test most build cases for things like bmake upgrades
> or other high risk changes like META_MODE.
> 
> 
> I'll think about this and add to my list of things to implement.

I would even go so far as to say this may be what we should be
running in (a) Jenkins.  Or perhaps a deeper exp-run?

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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org