Date: Mon, 7 Apr 1997 09:00:16 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... Message-ID: <199704071600.JAA29934@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199704070944.TAA06958@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 7, 97 07:14:39 pm
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> 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.
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