Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:39:26 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: md, current and stable Message-ID: <37894.981491966@critter> In-Reply-To: Your message of "06 Feb 2001 15:37:57 EST." <uoclmrj5yze.fsf@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>
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In message <uoclmrj5yze.fsf@hurlame.pdl.cs.cmu.edu>, Nat Lanza writes: >John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > >> Releases are bad enough as is w/o having to add in a multitude of >> hacks so that one can roll a 5.0 release on a 2.2.x box, etc. > >Sure, but allowing 4.x users to do a source upgrade to 5.0 makes the >upgrade path much more flexible. There's a big difference between >"support source upgrades from version N-1" and "support source >upgrades from all versions". You don't need "make release" to do a source upgrade from 4.x to 5.x... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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