From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 24 08:21:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA11989 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:21:31 -0700 Received: from whisker.internet-eireann.ie (whisker.internet-eireann.ie [194.9.34.204]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA11983 ; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 08:21:23 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whisker.internet-eireann.ie (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA09416; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 16:21:56 +0100 To: Peter da Silva cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 24 Jun 1995 09:00:42 CDT." <199506241400.JAA14194@bonkers.taronga.com> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 16:21:56 +0100 Message-ID: <9414.804007316@whisker.internet-eireann.ie> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Don't feel too bad about the update thing... OSF/1 still doesn't have > update installs working right... Yeah, but it's a festering sore and I'm really at the stage where it's going to move to #1 on my list, right up there with the release of 2.1 itself. A lot of people out there don't have the time or the inclination to reinstall their entire system from scratch every time, yet they want to have the warm, fuzzy feeling of knowing that they're working with the latest bits. They may also not have the disk space to "go current" and simply make the world themselves, plus a make world in /usr/src also isn't something that necessarily equivalent to the latest release anyway. It doesn't update _everything_ that may be required (like the appropriate /etc files). Finally, the CD customers who are already running happily with the last CD really don't want to blast everything to smithereens again if they can just stick the CD in the drive, type "update" and have the whole system update itself happily from CDROM, ask to reboot and then come up with flying colors. THAT is the way it should be done! :) Jordan