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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2000 18:36:00 -0700
From:      "Crist J . Clark" <cjclark@reflexnet.net>
To:        Ken Bolingbroke <freebsd@bolingbroke.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: No UPDATING for RELENG_3?
Message-ID:  <20000930183600.F25121@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301446590.25639-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>; from freebsd@bolingbroke.com on Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:13:23PM -0700
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301654440.63086-100000@earth.causticlabs.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009301446590.25639-100000@fremont.bolingbroke.com>

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On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 03:13:23PM -0700, Ken Bolingbroke wrote:
> 
> I'm in the middle of updating a machine from 2.2.5 to 4.1.1, hopefully.  
> I've got it to 2.2.8-S, successfully, then when the initial attempt to go
> from 2.2.8 to 3.5-S failed, I dropped down to 3.2-R which was successful.

You did a binary upgrade to 3.2-R? Why not just do the binary upgrade
to 4.1.1?

When starting from the 2.2.x branch, jumping straigh to 4.x via a
binary install seems to me to be the rational way to go. What's the
point of building a whole 3.x system just to clobber it immediately
with 4.x?
-- 
Crist J. Clark                           cjclark@alum.mit.edu


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