From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 12 11:34: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peloton.runet.edu (peloton.runet.edu [137.45.96.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173F3157B7 for ; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 11:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Received: from localhost (brett@localhost) by peloton.runet.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA09632; Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:32:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from brett@peloton.runet.edu) Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 14:32:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Brett Taylor To: Michael Lucas Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.5-stable ? In-Reply-To: <199910121825.OAA45519@blackhelicopters.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, Michael Lucas wrote: > Brett said: > > We could help you decide more if we knew exactly what issues you were > > having w/ software. > > Ah, but if you told me exactly what to do, I wouldn't learn anything, > would I? ;) > Seriously, most of it compiles. But 'cd /usr/port/whatever && make > all install' isn't as easy and carefree as I had come to expect. > There's a definite sensation of Russian roulette every time. ;) At this point, the longer you wait to switch to 3.*, the more and more you'll find yourself losing that game of Russian roulette. Official support for the 2.2 ports tree is gone - we TRY to make things compile on 2.2.* but I don't even have a machine anymore at 2.2.* and there are ports that are known not to work on 2.2 (gtk and glib are notorious, particularly due to the libtool port). > I guess what I'm asking for is an official notice that 3.3 is > considered not just stable, but reliable, rather like the above. I > need something to cover my butt with my clients when I upgrade them. Well, I don't know that there's an "official" notice - you should ask Jordan. Option 2 is to upgrade a single machine and see how it goes - if it stays stable under some tests/time period, you can slowly start to upgrade all of them. Brett ***************************************************** Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * Dept of Chem and Physics * Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * ***************************************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message