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Date:      Sun, 07 Nov 1999 11:12:49 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Thierry Herbelot <herbelot@cybercable.fr>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: stuck with ~year old current 
Message-ID:  <199911071912.LAA13326@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 07 Nov 1999 21:16:32 %2B0900." <38256DA0.F684B854@newsguy.com> 

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> > > "We do not support upgrading to -current from anything else than the
> > > latest -stable."
> > 
> > Does this still hold after the recent signal changes ?
> > 
> >         TfH
> > 
> > (I assume Yes, if one first upgrade the kernel, then the world)
> 
> You assume correctly. -stable loader can load -current kernel. Well,
> it could until very recently. I don't know if the new stuff Mike is
> doing will introduce any incompatibility.

The last incompatibility was around March or so, when the load address 
of the kernel changed.  Anything postdating that is basically 
equi-functional.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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