Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 13:42:02 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> Cc: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.1.0 upgrade "ftp reselect" reboots after selecting new site Message-ID: <1841.821223722@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 1996 11:53:30 PST." <96Jan9.115344pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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> I finally got around to trying the 2.1.0 "upgrade" option, and was dumb > enough not to change the ftp mode from "abort" the first time. Of course, > ftp.freebsd.org was busy, and the machine rebooted. Ok, I learned my Yeah, I know about this one. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth about it in the closing days of 2.1, and about 47 different commits from me failed to fix it. I'm suffering from a basic architectural flaw stemming from a failure to really examine all the ins and outs of `ftp media' before I settled on my generic media abstraction, and the only real fix involves some re-engineering work which I'm in the middle of right now. Jordan
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