From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 26 23:41:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C446E37BE6A for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:41:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@earthlink.net) Received: from dialin-client.earthlink.net (pool0652.cvx20-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net [209.179.252.142]) by emu.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA22874; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by dialin-client.earthlink.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00714; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:39:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:38:50 -0700 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Francisco Reyes Cc: FreeBSd Chat list Subject: Re: Why can't upgrades be simpler? Message-ID: <20000626233850.D302@dialin-client.earthlink.net> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net>; from fran@reyes.somos.net on Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:49:56PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Jun 26, 2000 at 11:49:56PM -0400, 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? If you want to do it the simplest way, do a binary upgrade (the smallest binary distribution only) then do the make-world. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message