From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 26 23:15:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95AC537BE15 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:15:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA18900; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <39584636.AADDFA31@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:14:14 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0603 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Why can't upgrades be simpler? References: <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Francisco Reyes wrote: > > 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? Technically, you're not "following," you're moving to a whole new branch. By definition, new branches are made when the architectural changes are such that an easy migration path is not possible. That's why we highly encourage people to back up their data and install major version upgrades from scratch. Better luck next time, Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message