From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 25 12:43:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cadmium.frontier.net (cadmium.frontier.net [199.45.141.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 942C537B416 for ; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:42:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eggplant.frontier.net (delerium.static.frontier.net [199.45.201.33]) by cadmium.frontier.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 524A47A85E; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:42:58 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:42:51 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time) From: Charlie Watts To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: 3.3-RELEASE -> 4-STABLE In-Reply-To: <20020424.215625.131931797.imp@village.org> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: cewatts@mail.frontier.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > I'd upgrade to at least 3.4-release (since there's some issues with > going from 3.3 and earlier to 4.0. I'd then stop at 4.2 or 4.3 next, > since that seems to be the next good stop on the train. I'd then shoot > for 4.5-stable from there, but be prepared to make a smaller leap if > necessary. Mergemaster is going to be hell, since all the files in /etc > have changed since 3.3-release. Boy, if that didn't convince me to go with a backup/install cycle, nothing will. Hrm. Seems like the chance of screwing up with that many mergemaster cycles is pretty high. I appreciate everyone's comments. -- Charlie Watts cewatts@frontier.net Frontier Internet, Inc. http://www.frontier.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message