From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 14 04:17:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01028 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 04:17:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from shrimp.dataplex.net (shrimp.dataplex.net [208.2.87.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01016 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 04:17:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkw@dataplex.net) Received: from [208.2.87.4] (user4.dataplex.net [208.2.87.4]) by shrimp.dataplex.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA19935; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 06:17:01 -0600 (CST) X-Sender: rkw@mail.dataplex.net Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <350A52DD.8330A0AD@dal.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 06:02:29 -0600 To: Studded From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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