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Date:      Tue, 6 Jun 2000 16:31:11 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Brian Hechinger <wonko@users.tmok.com>
To:        oberman@es.net (Kevin Oberman)
Cc:        fosburgh@flash.net, drek@zupa.bigstudios.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: softupdates
Message-ID:  <200006062031.QAA04163@entropy.tmok.com>
In-Reply-To: <200006062000.e56K0Zn13721@ptavv.es.net> from Kevin Oberman at "Jun 6, 2000  1: 0:35 pm"

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Kevin Oberman drunkenly mumbled...
> 
> I just did the update from 3.4-STABLE to 4.0-STABLE yesterday and I
> agree that you need to follow the instructions for updating
> closely. But I would strongly suggest against going to RELEASE. The
> number of fixes in STABLE is huge and the update process is much
> cleaner.
> 
> Aside from a mistake on my part, the update went very smoothly. I
> recommend it. On my 450 MHz K6-II the buildworld took about 2.5 hours,
> and the cvsup took forever (best with a fast network connection!), but
> the rest only took about 2 hours.
> 
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
> 

i thank you and jonathan for the info, i'll do a backup of the system before
i attempt this. :)  i would only be going to 3.4-stable to 4.0-release if i
were to use the cd, but if i take a chance (why not, you only live once) and
do it with cvsup and make, i'd be going from -stable to -stable (since the
first thing i do after installing -release is to cvsup -stable and rebuild)

cheers,

-brian


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