Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 09:29:20 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... Message-ID: <199704072335.QAA25072@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <199704071600.JAA29934@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 7, 97 09:00:16 am
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In some mail from Terry Lambert, sie said: > > > Darren Reed stands accused of saying: > > > In some mail from Michael Smith, sie said: > > > [...] > > > > > > > > * download Danny's 2.2.1 binary upgrade. > > > > > > Right. If a source code equivalent of this was available, it'd be perfect. > > > > See my other mail to you. I'm inclined to agree with you, and we > > should automate this while the motivation is still fresh. > > Bletch. > > You can't upgrade /etc reliably because the data and the implementation > aren't sufficiently seperate to let you safely stomp on a number of > files which need stomping in an upgrade. It *must* be a manual > operation until that is addressed. If you were using diff files, rather than drop in replacements, then I believe the /etc issue is handled a lot better. Maybe you'll get .rej files for /etc stuff, but at least you'll know what changed and what to look at. Personally, I think replacements bins for upgrading the binary distrib is fine and would go well with patches for the source tree. Darren
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