Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:20:44 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC GENERICupgrade SMP-GENERIC Message-ID: <199812282320.PAA13588@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Dec 1998 11:19:14 %2B1100." <199812280019.LAA13063@cimlogic.com.au>
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> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > My own experience with 2.2.6-ish boxes and -current from about two weeks > > > ago has been that the upgrade worked fine. If you can find a way to save > > > some of the upgrade stuff a little longer I think it would be nice :) > > > > I can't see there being much demand for upgrading from the old -stable > > to the new -current. The old -stable to new -stable upgrade will be > > much more important. > > How is old-stable (aout) to new-stable (elf) different from "2.2.6-ish boxes > and -current from about two weeks ago"? AFAIK, the same steps are required. Sure. My point was simply that once we have branched, the update code should go away from -current. I'm all for making the update code in "new -stable" work properly. > The problem is that people commit things without testing the upgrade > procedure. Most people don't have a system that they can regularly spam. Understood. I'm not sure what makes you think that I have time to do it either, of course. There's only one of me, dozens of you, and I have other stuff on my plate as well. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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