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Date:      Mon, 26 Jun 2000 23:49:56 -0400
From:      "Francisco Reyes" <fran@reyes.somos.net>
To:        "FreeBSd Chat list" <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Why can't upgrades be simpler?
Message-ID:  <200006270352.XAA29208@sanson.reyes.somos.net>

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As I considering giving up on upgrading a box from 3.4 Stable to
4.X I wonder why can't upgrades be made more gradual for those
of us  following stable?

Of 3 boxes I chose to bite the bullet on two and save my data
and install 4 from scratch. For the only box that I decided to
try and upgrade it has been very treacherous. Sure many people
have done it successfully, but for those of us that have failed
after having followed carefully /usr/src/UPDATING this is very
discouraging.

As I am on the verge of convincing my boss to use FreeBSD at
work I feel that the current upgrade paths for those following
stable need be simpler. I wonder if I want to put myself on a
position where I would be responsible for having to upgrade a
whole set of computers with such difficult upgrade paths.

Must it be this way forever?

Are BSDI upgrades any better?



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