Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:45:58 -0400 From: Scott Robbins <scottro@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.0-BETA1 Available Message-ID: <20050715154558.GA59113@uws1.starlofashions.com> In-Reply-To: <20050715152744.GA67970@kierun.org> References: <42D79676.6040606@samsco.org> <20050715115650.I66818@ganymede.hub.org> <42D7D3DA.20106@samsco.org> <20050715152744.GA67970@kierun.org>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 04:27:44PM +0100, Yann Golanski wrote: > Quoth Scott Long on Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:18:50 -0600 > > Part of the purpose of moving quickly on to RELENG_6 is so that the > > migration work for users from 5.x to 6.x is very small. 6.x is really > > just an evolutionary step from 5.x, not the life-altering revolutionary > > step that 4.x->5.x was. It should be quite easy to deploy and maintain > > 5.x and 6.x machines side-by-side and migrate them as the need arises. > > We don't want people to be stranded on RELENG_5 like they were with > > RELENG_4. 6.x offers everything of 5.x, but with better performance > > and (hopefully) better stability. If you're thinking about evaluating > > 5.x, give 6.0 a try also. > > Does that mean that a cvsup with "*default tag=RELENG_6" and a rebuilt > of the world will work smoothly? Would it work at all? Is it even > recommended? I did that without problem. There are some issues with libc.5.so and libc.6.so mostly (I think) having to do with perl. My only real issue was Japanese input, fixed by upgrading a few ports. Everything else seemed to work without trouble. - -- Scott GPG KeyID EB3467D6 ( 1B848 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 D575 EB34 67D6) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 Xander: Oh. Okay. You and Willow go do the superpower thing, I'll stay behind and putt around the Batcave with crusty old Alfred here. Giles: Ah-ah, no. I am no Alfred, sir. No, you forget. Alfred had a job. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC19o2+lTVdes0Z9YRAmsKAKCHpED4gViYG9rBWVjH5Ro2Dj/pjwCfRmIa c9hZgRWzQ7eo+sKQGkskBC0= =/YhW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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