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Date:      Thu, 08 Jul 2010 10:13:05 +0200
From:      Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Randi Harper <randi@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r209787 - head/usr.sbin/sysinstall
Message-ID:  <4C358891.5010502@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <201007080328.o683SP5k089410@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <201007080328.o683SP5k089410@svn.freebsd.org>

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Em 2010.07.08. 5:28, Randi Harper escreveu:
> Author: randi
> Date: Thu Jul  8 03:28:25 2010
> New Revision: 209787
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/209787
>
> Log:
>    Remove the ability to upgrade via sysinstall. This feature has been flaky
>    and broken for a number of years. freebsd-update now provides a reasonable
>    way to handle upgrades, so keeping this functionality in sysinstall only
>    serves to mislead users.
>
>    Approved by:	cperciva (mentor)
>    
Please revert. It has never been discussed in FreeBSD mailing lists, 
while it is mandatory before such important changes. 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 so I had to fall back to this "flaky" and "broken" 
feature, which in contrast perfectly worked. I'm sure there are others 
who have used it recently.

Gabor



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