From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 2 1:54:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD44F37B401; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 01:54:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5683B43E4A; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 01:54:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0097.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.97] helo=mindspring.com) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18InHa-0003TH-00; Mon, 02 Dec 2002 01:54:30 -0800 Message-ID: <3DEB2D0B.E79F31F3@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 01:51:07 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Barton Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , Ruslan Ermilov , current@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org, Warner Losh , Peter Wemm Subject: Re: [REPORT] Upgrade from 4.0-RELEASE to 5.0-CURRENT References: <20021201150303.GA6369@sunbay.com> <3DEA2774.DCE1CACD@newsguy.com> <20021202011423.Y7297-100000@master.gorean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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