Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 22:54:06 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@linux.gr> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide Message-ID: <20040907195406.GB5958@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <20040907175206.GC17387@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> <20040907175206.GC17387@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
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On 2004-09-07 10:52, Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: > I'd personally suggest wording the "don't do a source update" bit more > strongly, though I'm not sure how. Maybe a suggestion to see this as an > opportunity to set up that backup infrastructure you've been meaning to > install for the last decade. :-) Actually, somewhat experienced users can bring a 4.7-REL system to CURRENT using source upgrades if they read UPDATING carefully. I've done it a couple of times (during weekend breaks) on my workstation at work as an experiment, to see if upgrades from 4.X to CURRENT still work. I have to agree though that source upgrades are not recommended, since this way the disks cannot be newfs'd to UFS2 and a lot of cleaning up has to be done after the upgrade to make sure there are no stale files left around.
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