Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 01:51:07 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [REPORT] Upgrade from 4.0-RELEASE to 5.0-CURRENT Message-ID: <3DEB2D0B.E79F31F3@mindspring.com> References: <20021201150303.GA6369@sunbay.com> <3DEA2774.DCE1CACD@newsguy.com> <20021202011423.Y7297-100000@master.gorean.org>
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Doug Barton wrote: > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > IIRC, we never supported upgrade to 4.0 or 4.1 from anybut but the > > *latest* version in the 3.x series. I sure hope we adopt the same policy > > here. > > While I can't put a lot of time into supporting ru's efforts, and I agree > that the policy should be that we only officially support updating from > the latest RELENG_4, I think his work is noble, and I think we all agree > that any effort in this direction is laudable. I agree. It's reasonable to say you don't guarantee that it will work. It's unreasonable to go out of your way to make sure that it will *not* work. Personally, I want all the changes ru's been doing lately; he does good work, and it's elitist to force people to download gigabytes of intermediate release CDROMs to get to the -CURRENT release via an upgrade rather than a reinstall. The only thing you gain is trading in the people complaining about it not working as expected for people complaining that it's not working at all. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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