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Date:      Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:06:17 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: State of the 3.1 world and upgrading from earlier releases.
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990219120617.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <40353.919387427@zippy.cdrom.com>

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On 19-Feb-99 Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>  from releng3.freebsd.org) and choosing an upgrade installation.  This
>  is a faster, less error prone and extremely direct way of upgrading
>  from any previous release, be it a.out OR ELF, in comparison to a
>  source upgrade.  It still won't result in an installation which is
>  quite as "clean" as a completely fresh install, but it does work (yes,
>  I've tested it :).

Does doing an upgrade in such a fashion result in the creation of aout directories? or
are all your ports broken when you upgrade? :)

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum


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