From owner-freebsd-hackers  Sat Jun 24 10:24:46 1995
Return-Path: hackers-owner
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA18133
          for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 10:24:46 -0700
Received: from virgo.ai.net (root@virgo.ai.net [198.69.44.2])
          by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA18126
          ; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 10:24:43 -0700
Received: from aries.ai.net (aries.ai.net [198.69.44.1]) by virgo.ai.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA01002; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 13:26:15 -0400
Received: (from nc@localhost) by aries.ai.net (8.6.11/8.6.12) id NAA29936; Sat, 24 Jun 1995 13:24:48 -0400
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 1995 13:24:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net>
To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freebsd.org>
cc: hackers@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Announcing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP 
In-Reply-To: <9414.804007316@whisker.internet-eireann.ie>
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950624132340.28774A-100000@aries.ai.net>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org
Precedence: bulk



> 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! :)

[not that I use FreeBSD of a CD] but that *is* the way it should work. 
Rather like the way make works for a source tree in general. Anyway, 
count me in for work on the update part of the project. 

-Jerry.