From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 30 17:34:50 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA08111 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 17:34:50 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA08105 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 1995 17:34:46 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA04534; Sun, 30 Apr 95 18:28:10 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505010028.AA04534@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: your mail To: deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org (Daniel M. Eischen) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 95 18:28:10 MDT Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9504302030.AA13164@iworks.InterWorks.org> from "Daniel M. Eischen" at Apr 30, 95 03:30:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Well, if there was an easy way to upgrade from snap to snap without > overwriting any files that you have changed for a particular setup... Not possible until the configuration is totally data-driven. That means at least one more hump to get over where there will be a destructive install. In point of fact, there is so much love of history in the /etc directory that I expect this to streach out into 9 or ten humps. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.