On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Julian Stacey wrote: > Richard Coleman wrote: > > But I think the time for these discussions is passed. > > current@ is only a concensus of /usr/src developers. /usr/src & > /usr/ports/ users on hackers@ ports@ isp@ may not have seen current@'s > change ? that may make later net upgrades more problematic / dangerous. > > FreeBSD (non current) can be net upgraded to new releases without any > /usr/src & /usr/obj on either remote target or local (keyboard) system, > using merely an ftp'd new binary tree + `mv'. Will a safe new `ftp + > mv' procedure be documented ?
Is /rescue/mv adequate for this purpose? A slightly more fragile approach would be to make sure that /lib is unpacked before /bin and /sbin. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects [EMAIL PROTECTED] Network Associates Laboratories _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
