Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 21:06:27 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: glen.j.barber@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64 Message-ID: <4a1b6ac3.qTcpIqzA%2BbL3Efh1%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310905251826r60b54a9cve5d9508aef422f7e@mail.gmail.com> References: <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392956CE@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905260318050.42688@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <4ad871310905251826r60b54a9cve5d9508aef422f7e@mail.gmail.com>
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Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Wojciech Puchar > <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > > > even more important - why you are upgrading at all. did you find > > in 7.1 problems that you wanted to solve by moving to 7.2? > > Are you suggesting a user should only upgrade if they are having > a problem, or do you just like to contribute more nonsense to the > list by asking irrelevant questions to the OP's topic? I'd say it depends very much on the system's use. For a system which is in production (i.e. doing ongoing work), there is a great deal to be said for not fixing things that aren't broken. Even within a major release branch (7.0 => 7.1 => 7.2) it is not at all uncommon for a point release to introduce new problems along with its new capabilities. If that were not the case, there would be no need for the RE folks to maintain the security/errata branches. Suggesting that the OP consider the risks along with the benefits is hardly irrelevant to a question about upgrading.
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