From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 31 14:18:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA13595 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:18:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA13589 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:18:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id OAA12428; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:17:20 -0800 (PST) To: "Lee Crites (AEI)" cc: FreeBSD-Ports Subject: Re: Error installing pine-3.96 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 31 Mar 1997 11:59:05 CST." Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 14:17:20 -0800 Message-ID: <12424.859846640@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I have two decades of computer experience. I've done just about > everything once (and some things I don't want to admit to more than once > -- anyone need a cobol programmer anymore?) Lots of people, actually - cobol programmers are going to make a fortune these next few months in turning all those "PIC(2) YEAR" statements into "PIC(4) YEAR" for the Y2000 problem. :-) > We already take into consideration the possibility of a person having a > pc with multiple os's on it. Why can't we consider the option of having > one pc with multiple versions of fbsd on it? One of the excuses for not It's too hard? :-) For one thing, you can't give it its own partition since only the first 0xA5 type partition is booted from and I can't really imagine how you'd make multiple versions co-exist in a single partition. If our upgrade supported proper versioning, it might be easy enough to go *backwards* if you didn't like an upgrade and wanted to undo it, but I can't see anything fancier than that working out. Jordan