From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 22 20: 3: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2FBA37C29F for ; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:03:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA85859; Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:02:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <38D9973E.DF9BCB73@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 20:02:06 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-HEAD-0320 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Murphy Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance?) References: <20000321170118.M5367@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> <20000322015400.B34538@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> <38D86EF7.2595FA9F@gorean.org> <20000322093709.A48595@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Murphy wrote: > > Quoting <38D86EF7.2595FA9F@gorean.org> > by Doug Barton : > > > Actually what you see on the web page clearly stated in numerous > > places is that upgrading from source is NOT for the faint of heart. > > I put a sternly worded message in my 2.2.8->3.2 upgrade web page > > that told the user that they would be better off using sysinstall. > > But, that page isn't on a freebsd site, so I guess I don't win your > > bet. > > I'm afraid not 8) I can't help pointing out that you deleted the part of my post which did refer you to the official freebsd.org site that clearly describes the recommended upgrading method. > It's probably even easier than you realise to fall into thinking > source upgrades are the way to keep up with -stable, since what *is* > in the handbook is section 18.2.2 [1], which says: But that's not what we were discussing. We were discussing upgrades to -release. -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence, is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message