Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:50:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Francisco Reyes <fran@reyes.somos.net> Cc: FreeBSd Chat list <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Why can't upgrades be simpler? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006270148070.4659-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net>
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On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, 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?
As others have pointed out, you weren't following stable, you were jumping
to a whole new version.
The simple, painless way to do this is to do a binary upgrade, not a
source one.
> Must it be this way forever?
Source-level upgrades will always be fraught with danger, especially those
which cross major revisions.
> Are BSDI upgrades any better?
I've never installed BSD/OS, but I'd bet they're not significantly better
than our binary upgrades, which are the equivalent operation.
Kris
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