From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 17:48:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.westbend.net (ns1.westbend.net [216.106.246.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA8737B424 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 17:48:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from admin (admin0.westbend.net [216.106.246.17]) by mail.westbend.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f3B0mTU76985; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:48:29 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Message-ID: <002f01c0c220$f01628e0$11f66ad8@westbend.net> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: Cc: "\"Alfred Perlstein\"" References: <200104110014.f3B0Ejx27571@spare.westbend.net> <20010410171844.I15938@fw.wintelcom.net> Subject: Re: Release (patch included) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 19:47:07 -0500 Organization: West Bend Interent MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Alfred Perlstein" > Unfortunetly patches like this don't address the problem of a user > accidentally upgrading to a version he doesn't want. > > For a patch to address that see: > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=28213+0+archive/2001/freebsd-ar ch/20010325.freebsd-arch > Your patch is much better, as the user is informed before install[kernel|world] that they are upgrading to a newer release. But it doesn't address the RC, BETA tag naming issue. What you could do is check $newvers for the RC, BETA, and CURRENT tags, and then provide URL links to the appropriate Handbook/FAQ entries for RC, BETA, and CURRENT. That way we can get theses "I cvsuped STABLE and now I have BETA/RC" questions off the list. Scot PS: I didn't mean to start a new thread on this subject. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message