From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 15 13: 6:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from morpheus.skynet.be (morpheus.skynet.be [195.238.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1313037BCC5; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:06:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [194.78.235.76] (dialup648.brussels.skynet.be [195.238.21.136]) by morpheus.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6E4CCD89; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:06:18 +0100 (MET) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <200003151950.MAA88847@harmony.village.org> References: <200003151950.MAA88847@harmony.village.org> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:05:40 +0100 To: Warner Losh , Glen Gross From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 12:50 PM -0700 2000/3/15, Warner Losh wrote: > Too complicated to be worth the hassle? The few simple steps in > UPDATING have been followed by me on several systems and work... What might work fine for -CURRENT users may be too complex for people used to much more polished procedures in -STABLE. Unfortunately, there are *way* too many people who are ready to jump on the .0 release, and there's not likely to be too much you can do to protect them from blowing off their foot in this fashion. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message