From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 13 19:42:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA25227 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:42:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA25126; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:41:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA03072; Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:37:42 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199803140337.TAA03072@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Doug White cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Aleksey Zvyagin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:31:44 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 19:37:41 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Perhaps it's time to make subscription to the list *mandatory* before > > someone is allowed to cvsup the -stable bits? We're just going to get > > FAQ'd to death in the future if we don't do something like this, I'm > > really worried about that. > > Speaking of FAQ, it may be useful to do some preemptive customer support > and add a FAQ question for it. Please do. If I wasn't quite so delirious and distracted I'd try to do it myself. > > P.S. As has been covered in *great* detail this last week, and as is > > also available via the mailing list archives, edit /dev/wd0a to be the > > fully-slice-qualified name, like the other entries. e.g. /dev/wd0s1a. > > I think I'll have to join Paul in questioning whether this breakage is > going to make 2.2.6 a support nightmare. I don't want this to become > another ``unknown login class root''-style hailstorm. :-( If you update /sbin/mount at the same time, it's a no-op. I got bitten by the two different "dedicated" disk types issue though; that hurt. The fix is still being tested in -current, but I haven't heard any complaints about it, so I was planning to bring it over tonight. I think it was my turn to be bitten by a "this is simple and innocouous and will reduce world ugliness" change. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message