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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r209787 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall
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On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 01:53:09AM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 07/08/10 01:13, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
> > Em 2010.07.08. 5:28, Randi Harper escreveu:
> >>    Remove the ability to upgrade via sysinstall. [...]
> >>
> >>    Approved by:    cperciva (mentor)
> >>    
> > I just used this feature yesterday to repair my -CURRENT installation
> > on a netbook with an USB snapshot image. First I tried freebsd-update
> > but it just failed to fetch the keys from the servers and was unable
> > to produce any sensual error message [...]
> 
> Yes, freebsd-update should print a more useful error message when it is asked
> to upgrade to a release it doesn't support (freebsd-update only does RELEASEs,
> BETAs, and RCs).  But a more *sensual* message is probably not necessary. :-)

He'd probably meant sensitive.  Still, if freebsd-update(8) cannot be
used as drop-in replacement of sysinstall(8) for functionality in
question (and not supporting -CURRENT snapshots that many of us are
running proves it cannot), this change should be reverted until
universally accepted solution is proposed, tested, and committed.

./danfe