From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 29 21:23:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA29904 for current-outgoing; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:23:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA29898 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 1996 21:23:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA19174; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:52:51 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199610300522.PAA19174@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: 2.1.5r -> current upgrade To: sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu (Steven G. Kargl) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 15:52:50 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199610300500.VAA17363@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> from "Steven G. Kargl" at Oct 29, 96 09:00:21 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Steven G. Kargl stands accused of saying: > >> For anyone that may be interested; the upgrade process from 2.1.5-RELEASE to >> today's -current is : ... > Ah, don't you need to do some merging of files in /etc? Only if you feel like it 8) Seriously, yes, you'll want to do that in most cases, but the point I was making was that all these whines about "upgrading to -current is so hard" are people making their own trouble, not anything wrong with the tree per se. > Steve -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[