From owner-freebsd-net Mon Mar 18 17:12:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from web9903.mail.yahoo.com (web9903.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.129.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 62B7837B400 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:12:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020319011205.16224.qmail@web9903.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [12.234.253.62] by web9903.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:12:05 PST Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:12:05 -0800 (PST) From: W Alexander Hagen Subject: Interesting Validation of FreeBSD 4.3 To: research@docomolabs-usa.com Cc: W Alexander Hagen , freebsd-net@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="0-1105202560-1016500325=:15120" Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --0-1105202560-1016500325=:15120 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Interesting Validation of FreeBSD 4.3 Greg Black wrote: Josef Karthauser wrote: | > I like to understand the problem, before upgrading out of it. This | > is the 28th patch of REL ENG 4.3 after all. It should be very stable. | | 4.3 is two whole major releases ago. You should be running 4.5, which | you can get by cvsuping using the tag RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, or the tag | RELENG_4 if you wish to be at the head of developments on the -stable | branch. This is not wise advice. There are lots of circumstances where 4.3 is perfectly fine and can be shown to work while 4.4 and 4.5 are broken. I have had to revert to 4.3 on several machines after attempting unsuccessfully to run 4.4 and 4.5 (and current, for that matter). Greg --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - live college hoops coverage --0-1105202560-1016500325=:15120 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii

Interesting Validation of FreeBSD 4.3

  Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net> wrote:

Josef Karthauser wrote:

| > I like to understand the problem, before upgrading out of it. This
| > is the 28th patch of REL ENG 4.3 after all. It should be very stable.
|
| 4.3 is two whole major releases ago. You should be running 4.5, which
| you can get by cvsuping using the tag RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, or the tag
| RELENG_4 if you wish to be at the head of developments on the -stable
| branch.

This is not wise advice. There are lots of circumstances where
4.3 is perfectly fine and can be shown to work while 4.4 and 4.5
are broken. I have had to revert to 4.3 on several machines
after attempting unsuccessfully to run 4.4 and 4.5 (and current,
for that matter).

Greg


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