Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 16:57:33 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Upgrading 2.2.2 to 3.0 Message-ID: <35FD833D.6734F893@aei.ca> References: <199809140009.RAA24984@usr04.primenet.com>
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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
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