From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Mar 16 17:16: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B1F537B718 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:16:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2H1FMG71841; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:15:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20010316170755.S29888@fw.wintelcom.net> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:15:35 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Alfred Perlstein Subject: Re: NO MORE '-BETA' Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, tlambert@primenet.com, drosih@rpi.edu, Jordan Hubbard Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 17-Mar-01 Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Jordan Hubbard [010316 16:44] wrote: >> > Let's just add something to cvsup to prompt the user? Or something >> > in the build process that's interactive? or what? >> >> How about turning it off to all but authorized users (those who have >> a registered cvsup key, as on freefall) during release periods? > > The real pain is that there doesn't seem to be a way stop users from > upgrading before they actually do it. > > I think what'll happen is that sometime tomorrow I'll add an option > to newvers.sh to detect a cross version change and have the world > and installworld and installkernel targets check and prompt unless > something like EARLY_ADOPTER=YES is set in make.conf or you're > building a 'release'. > > Would that be ok? So you will prompt them wiht a question that will make them ignore it and cut and paste it into a message and mail it off to a dozen lists screaming about it? If they can't manage to follow -stable or read the FAQ, what makes you think they will bother with reading the message you output with going into hysteria? They've already demonstrated a lack of reading ability or willingness or something. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message