From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 26 20:58:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD75437BDFA for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:58:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA29208 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:52:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSd Chat list" Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:49:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Why can't upgrades be simpler? Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As I considering giving up on upgrading a box from 3.4 Stable to 4.X I wonder why can't upgrades be made more gradual for those of us following stable? Of 3 boxes I chose to bite the bullet on two and save my data and install 4 from scratch. For the only box that I decided to try and upgrade it has been very treacherous. Sure many people have done it successfully, but for those of us that have failed after having followed carefully /usr/src/UPDATING this is very discouraging. As I am on the verge of convincing my boss to use FreeBSD at work I feel that the current upgrade paths for those following stable need be simpler. I wonder if I want to put myself on a position where I would be responsible for having to upgrade a whole set of computers with such difficult upgrade paths. Must it be this way forever? Are BSDI upgrades any better? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message