From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 28 4:37:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sc-24-165-84-137.socal.rr.com (sc-24-165-84-137.socal.rr.com [24.165.84.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5BC37B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 04:37:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gross@localhost) by sc-24-165-84-137.socal.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA00415 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 04:38:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gross@socal.rr.com) X-Authentication-Warning: sc-24-165-84-137.socal.rr.com: gross owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 04:38:48 -0700 (PDT) From: "Glendon M. Gross" To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3.4STABLE to 4.1STABLE can't make modules (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Although binary distribution would be easier, I suspect that many of us would prefer to build everything locally. That is one of the unique features of FreeBSD, even if it is time consuming. > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2000 , Gary Kline wrote: > > > > > > BTW, I have some ideas how this entire issue of updating one's > > FBSD system can be done lots easier: say, by doing essentially > > an ftp binary up-rev across major releases: 2 -> 3 or 3 -> 4. > > Then using a relatively simple build|install and mergemaster > > moving within released. > > > > Like everything else, it's a matter of time and prio.... > > > > gary > >-- > > Gary D. Kline kline@tao.thought.org Public service Unix > > > I vote for that! > Thanks. > Lazaro > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message