From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Sep 14 13:58:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA17448 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:58:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17325 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:58:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (pm03-18.aei.ca [206.123.6.168]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA21472; Mon, 14 Sep 1998 16:57:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <35FD833D.6734F893@aei.ca> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 16:57:33 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Terry Lambert CC: Mike Smith , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.2.2 to 3.0 References: <199809140009.RAA24984@usr04.primenet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > > > Upgrading from anything other than the most recent release is never > > > > > supported. In this case that means you can't start from anything > > > > > earlier than 2.2.7 and expect it to work. > > [ ... ] > > > > This means that I won't be able to install 2.2.8-release unless I > > > first install 3.0-release, I guess. > > [ ... ] > > > 2.2.7 is "most recent" from 2.2.8. Prior to 2.2.8 being released, > > 2.2.7 is "most recent" from 3.0. When 2.2.8 comes out, it will take > > that place. > > > > Just gotta learn to count someday, Terry. > > Not true. The 3.0 release will predate the 2.2.8 release. > > "Upgrading from anything other than the most recent release is never > supported". > > So when 2.2.8 arrives, 3.0 will be "the most recent release". > > Of course, we could just take issue with the use of "never", here... > > On the other hand, if 2.2.8 is release, then does this mean that > upgrading from 2.2.8 to 3.0 *will* be supported? I don't think > so; how can you test the upgrade path for something that doesn't > exist yet? 8-). > > On beyond Zebra... when 2.2.8 is released, I guess the "never" > statement means that upgrading from 2.2.7-release to 3.0-release > won't be supported any longer... 8-) 8-). > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message Ok, but just want to know what will happen in the FAQ and handbook: will they support each version or will slowly start to move to 3.x and loose support for 2.2.x? -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message