From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 19 19:46:54 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96BE0106566B for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:46:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kkutzko@teksavvy.com) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.pppoe.ca [206.248.154.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300098FC21 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:46:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kkutzko@teksavvy.com) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArEEAAsL4UdMCqa7/2dsb2JhbACLF59QBA X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.25,526,1199682000"; d="scan'208";a="16247586" Received: from mail.pppoe.ca ([65.39.192.132]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 19 Mar 2008 15:46:53 -0400 Received: from kevin ([76.10.166.187]) by mail.pppoe.ca (Internet Mail Server v1.0) with ASMTP id ZWN04253; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:46:53 -0400 From: "Kevin K" To: "'Jeremy Chadwick'" , "'Marko Lerota'" References: <867igo3cih.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <47C749CF.4010501@FreeBSD.org> <86eja7et3j.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <47E0249C.8030700@FreeBSD.org> <868x0ezh9u.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <20080319193243.GA30784@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20080319193243.GA30784@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:46:52 -0400 Message-ID: <000401c889f9$fab77c10$f0267430$@com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 Thread-Index: AciJ+BnuwnrSf6HwQRKceDzehuZHgQAAdF8g Content-Language: en-us Cc: 'Kris Kennaway' , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:46:54 -0000 > That said: I do understand what you're saying, and yes, I can see why > you would want that. It does make sense, and it's reasonable. It's > just hard to achieve. I don't think other mainstream OSes (e.g. Linux) > offer this ability either, though. Am I wrong? Redhat's up2date/yum ? I'm not 100% certain though.