From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Feb 18 17:36:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FA6911A80 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 17:36:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06559; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:06:18 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <40353.919387427@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:06:17 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: RE: State of the 3.1 world and upgrading from earlier releases. Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message