From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 28 12:49:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA19528 for current-outgoing; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 12:49:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ppp1656.on.sympatico.ca (ppp1656.on.sympatico.ca [206.172.249.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA19523 for ; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 12:49:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by ppp1656.on.sympatico.ca (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA02415; Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:47:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 15:47:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Vanderhoek Reply-To: ac199@hwcn.org To: Mike Smith cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Staying -current with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199709281709.CAA06890@word.smith.net.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > - FTP : You can install a FreeBSD-current snapshot via FTP just like > a release version. FreeBSD-current snapshots are normally built daily > and can be downloaded from ftp://current.freebsd.org/. You can also use sysinstall to upgrade in a piecemeal fashion with the "custom" install and "custom" distributions. Of course, this puts a greater burden on the user to handle details (eg. copy /etc/ to a temp location before installing the "bin" dist) and to make sure that things are sufficiently synchronized on their own machine. -- tIM...HOEk OPTIMIZATION: the process of using many one-letter variables names hoping that the resultant code will run faster.