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Date:      Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:12:47 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Steven Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com>, Andrew Mishchenko <andrew@driftin.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Request: remove ssh1 fallback
Message-ID:  <20021023161246.A25277@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <3DB722CA.2A6E6482@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:29:30PM -0700
References:  <20021023155753.GB7503@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <004401c27aad$740a5400$33d90c42@officescape.net> <20021023161643.GA7813@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021023143917.GA3222@driftin.net> <3DB6F2E1.799FF6F7@mindspring.com> <009001c27ac8$af6d77f0$33d90c42@officescape.net> <20021023123349.A9132@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3DB6FF07.5DAC9CCB@mindspring.com> <20021023131051.A21930@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3DB722CA.2A6E6482@mindspring.com>

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On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 03:29:30PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> >=20
> > A binary upgrade to 5.0 isn't going to be much better.  If you just
> > do it, it's going to leave you with most of the problems described in
> > UPDATING.  You're still going to have to remember to delete things from
> > your includes directories if you want C++ to work, your pam.conf will be
> > obsolete, the names of some devices will be different, etc.
>=20
> I thought 5.0-RELEASE wouldn't suck.  Now you are saying that it
> will, and the fact that it will is justification for making it
> suck even more by breaking existing installed 4.7-RELEASE machines
> that get upgraded to 5.0-RELEASE.

I'm saying that trying to do an inplace upgrade will be fairly
complicated.  You will have to pay attention to what's going on and you
will have to deal with things that have changed.  If you don't read the
release notes (which would certaintly mention this change if it were
made), be prepared to get bitten.  That's true of every other OS I've
ever upgraded.

As usual, your best bet is to do a fresh install.  If you can't do
that, you need to think long and hard before doing an upgrade.  Most
of the big features of 5.0 aren't going to do you a lot of good on a
system that already works and is in production.  For example, UFS2
is only useful if you can newfs your disks.  In any case, this isn't the
sort of thing you should leap into.  If you do and things go badly,
that's just too damn bad.

-- Brooks

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