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Date:      Thu, 25 Apr 2002 13:42:51 -0600 (Mountain Daylight Time)
From:      Charlie Watts <cewatts@frontier.net>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: 3.3-RELEASE -> 4-STABLE
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.44.0204251340560.4012-100000@eggplant.frontier.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020424.215625.131931797.imp@village.org>

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On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> I'd upgrade to at least 3.4-release (since there's some issues with
> going from 3.3 and earlier to 4.0.  I'd then stop at 4.2 or 4.3 next,
> since that seems to be the next good stop on the train.  I'd then shoot
> for 4.5-stable from there, but be prepared to make a smaller leap if
> necessary.  Mergemaster is going to be hell, since all the files in /etc
> have changed since 3.3-release.

Boy, if that didn't convince me to go with a backup/install cycle, nothing
will. Hrm.

Seems like the chance of screwing up with that many mergemaster cycles is
pretty high.

I appreciate everyone's comments.

-- 
Charlie Watts
cewatts@frontier.net
Frontier Internet, Inc.
http://www.frontier.net/


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