Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 06:02:29 -0600 From: Richard Wackerbarth <rkw@dataplex.net> To: Studded <Studded@dal.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. Message-ID: <l03130305b13020eda12e@[208.2.87.4]> In-Reply-To: <350A52DD.8330A0AD@dal.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980313193002.19404U-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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At 3:50 AM -0600 3/14/98, Studded wrote: >> I think I'll have to join Paul in questioning whether this breakage is >> going to make 2.2.6 a support nightmare. I don't want this to become >> another ``unknown login class root''-style hailstorm. :-( > > I don't think it will. For one thing that login class root problem was >an error, it was caused by an actual mistake. For another, it affected >every person who installed, even on a new system. So far the only people >who've been caught by this problem are people who aren't paying >attention to the lists and have done various (and varying degrees of) >stupid things to make their life more difficult. This is not true. I, for one, have been following the lists. Further, I don't think that it is fair to characterize "using the format that has been on the disk 'forever' (pre slice)" as a "stupid thing" to have done. At the present time, the code is "broken". PERIOD. I'm sure that it will get fixed before the release, but .... Richard Wackerbarth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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