From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Mar 8 11:16:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.ca (epsilon.lucida.ca [209.47.215.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C06EC37B71B for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2001 11:16:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@LUCIDA.CA) Received: (qmail 10404 invoked by uid 1000); 8 Mar 2001 17:29:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 8 Mar 2001 17:29:53 -0000 Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 12:29:52 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Heckaman To: j mckitrick Cc: Subject: Re: using stable vs clean from CD In-Reply-To: <20010308172230.A48296@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, j mckitrick wrote: ... : Is this a valid argument for installing from CD, or did I just miss some : vital instructions somewhere? Or do glitches like this generally only occur : over major releases? Well.. Some people always cvsup across major releases, I do not. My rules are as follows: 1) CVSUP through all minor version numbers. 2) Clean install through all major version numbers. I'm a fan of cleaning everything out every year or so though, some people differ, but this is the way I do it. :) * Matt Heckaman - mailto:matt@lucida.ca http://www.lucida.ca/pgp * * GPG fingerprint - 53CA 8320 C8F6 32ED 9DDF 036E 3171 C093 4AD3 1364 * -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.ca/pgp iD8DBQE6p8GRMXHAk0rTE2QRAmBfAJ0TIIXKwra82f4SSfpGU65XFA6Q/QCcD/U3 TK1EwERy9FwmYXhcozoah18= =cK4Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message