From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 24 9:50:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C294137B94A for ; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:50:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02864; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:48:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38DBAA72.24058426@gorean.org> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:48:34 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0322 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremiah Gowdy Cc: J McKitrick , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: going from 4.0 -> 3.4 References: <20000324015430.A85928@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <38DB28AF.A1410253@gorean.org> <20000324123638.A88106@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <38DBA503.E56180C3@gorean.org> <001701bf95b8$fc4a1da0$0100000a@vista1.sdca.home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jeremiah Gowdy wrote: > > > You misunderstood. You cannot downgrade without wiping your disk. Sorry > > I wasn't more clear. > > Wow, you can't ? I don't want to, but I was always thinking you could just > cvsup to any source version you want, make world, rebuild kernel, and roll > with it. Does it not work that way ? *Sometimes* that works, within branches. The system is designed to be upwardly compatible, but downward compatibility is not guaranteed. Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message