From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 13:53:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB3116A4D6 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:53:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from cmsrelay03.mx.net (cmsrelay03.mx.net [165.212.11.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12E5543D49 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 13:53:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from noackjr@compgeek.com) Received: from uadvg131.cms.usa.net (165.212.11.131) by cmsoutbound.mx.net with SMTP; 25 Jan 2004 21:53:50 -0000 Received: from optimator.noacks.org [65.69.2.105] by uadvg131.cms.usa.net (ASMTP/noackjr@usa.net) via mtad (C8.MAIN.3.13N) with ESMTP id 281iayV2W0325M31; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:53:48 GMT X-USANET-Auth: 65.69.2.105 AUTH noackjr@usa.net optimator.noacks.org Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE586103; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:53:47 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 88630-10; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:53:46 -0600 (CST) Received: from compgeek.com (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F85C6101; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:53:46 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <40143AE4.4040805@compgeek.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:53:40 -0600 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5a (20040105) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ken Smith References: <1074659659.28370.10.camel@athena> <20040121141952.GA17839@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20040125110630.F81485@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040125193234.GA24573@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20040125193234.GA24573@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at noacks.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Updating from 4.9-RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: noackjr@compgeek.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:53:58 -0000 On 1/25/2004 1:32 PM, Ken Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 11:12:21AM -0800, Doug White wrote: >>Its in UPDATING on -CURRENT. I guess we need to explicitly warn people to >>read the -CURRENT UPDATING and not the -STABLE one when planning their >>upgrade. > > For what it's worth I was reading the right file. If you want to warn > people about something warn them not to be afraid of doing something > before they actually try it. :-( Booting a 5.X kernel in a 4.X world > sounded scary but seems to have worked just fine. > >>Also see the section "To upgrade in-place from 4.x-stable to current" near >>the bottom of the file. > > Missed that part completely. :-( Thanks. It's mentioned in the "Source Upgrades" sub-section of the "Notes on Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.X" section of the Early Adopter's Guide: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/early-adopter.html#AEN192 The "Common Notes" sub-section is also extrememly informative: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.2R/early-adopter.html#AEN198 Jon