From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Mar 6 14:45:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA04726 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:45:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA04713 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:45:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA16588; Wed, 6 Mar 1996 14:44:46 -0800 (PST) To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is 2.2 Estimated to be released? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 06 Mar 1996 10:44:15 EST." <199603061544.KAA01428@etinc.com> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 14:44:46 -0800 Message-ID: <16586.826152286@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Would it be possible to keep a .tgz image of sys/src for the > releases and the snaps on > the ftp site? It would be much easier to upgrade a system this way, > particularly for those that Uh, I suppose.. Does anyone else feel that this is important enough for me to make it a checklist item on my build procedures? Since config also changes frequently, src/sys often isn't all you need, so I kind of think it'd be better to advise anyone wishing to stay up to date to simply grab the src dist. Since the ftpd on wcarchive supports `get .tar.gz', it's not that hard to grab it. Jordan