From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 18 01:59:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA10817 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:59:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA10778 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 01:59:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA01090; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:39:19 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd000979; Tue Nov 17 19:39:11 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA22932; Tue, 17 Nov 1998 19:38:57 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199811180238.TAA22932@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Is it soup yet? :-) To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 02:38:57 +0000 (GMT) Cc: julian@whistle.com, dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, green@unixhelp.org, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, peter@netplex.com.au, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199811120415.PAA08645@cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at Nov 12, 98 03:15:00 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > they fetch updates overr the net. > > but they don't have code to replace the bootblocks > > to do that would mean 2 upgrades, one to get the new software that CAN do > > so, and one to replace them. > > So why can't you do that?! > Do you have dependencies between your upgrade versions (or whatever you > call them)? Yes. You have to be able to downgrade automatically if the upgrade doesn't work. No matter what happens, it has to work. Period. If you have questions as to what this has to do with a.out on post upgrade hardware, you can ask Julian for more detail. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message