Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:21:45 +0200 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: kris@obsecurity.org Subject: Re: Building 5-CURRENT world under 4-STABLE? Message-ID: <20030405102145.028137d3.steve@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20030405073220.GB52420@sunbay.com> References: <Pine.UW2.4.53.0304041009350.28790@lerami.lerctr.org> <20030404165738.GA21750@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030404174114.GC67714@sunbay.com> <20030405083605.399668e5.steve@sohara.org> <20030405073220.GB52420@sunbay.com>
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On Sat, 5 Apr 2003 10:32:20 +0300
Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote:
RE> On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 08:36:05AM +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote:
RE> > On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 20:41:14 +0300
RE> > I've a feeling that there are a fair number of folks planning
RE> > on going 4-STABLE to 5-STABLE when it happens. It would be nice if
RE> > that path were smooth.
RE> >
RE> The jump from 4.LATEST-RELEASE -> 5.FIRST-STABLE-RELEASE release
RE> will be of course supported. The question here is should we
That "of course" in this kind of context is one of the best
things about FreeBSD. Thank you.
RE> support say 4.8-STABLE -> 5.8-STABLE, that far?
Oh well that's another matter, it's well known that upgrades
over too wide a jump are sticky and may require staging (at which point
sanity usually intervenes with migration instead).
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