From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 7 09:19:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA20834 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:19:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA20827 for ; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:19:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA29934; Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:00:16 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704071600.JAA29934@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:00:16 -0700 (MST) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199704070944.TAA06958@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 7, 97 07:14:39 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Darren Reed stands accused of saying: > > In some mail from Michael Smith, sie said: > > [...] > > > > > > * download Danny's 2.2.1 binary upgrade. > > > > Right. If a source code equivalent of this was available, it'd be perfect. > > See my other mail to you. I'm inclined to agree with you, and we > should automate this while the motivation is still fresh. Bletch. You can't upgrade /etc reliably because the data and the implementation aren't sufficiently seperate to let you safely stomp on a number of files which need stomping in an upgrade. It *must* be a manual operation until that is addressed. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.