Re: md, current and stable

2001-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nat Lanza writes: >Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You don't need "make release" to do a source upgrade from 4.x to 5.x... > >You're right. Whoops. > >I can still see it being useful in some cases, though, and as long as >the changes necessary to

Re: md, current and stable

2001-02-06 Thread Nat Lanza
Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You don't need "make release" to do a source upgrade from 4.x to 5.x... You're right. Whoops. I can still see it being useful in some cases, though, and as long as the changes necessary to support it aren't too ugly it might be worthwhile. --nat

Re: md, current and stable

2001-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nat Lanza writes: >John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Releases are bad enough as is w/o having to add in a multitude of >> hacks so that one can roll a 5.0 release on a 2.2.x box, etc. > >Sure, but allowing 4.x users to do a source upgrade to 5.0 makes th

Re: md, current and stable

2001-02-06 Thread Nat Lanza
John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Releases are bad enough as is w/o having to add in a multitude of > hacks so that one can roll a 5.0 release on a 2.2.x box, etc. Sure, but allowing 4.x users to do a source upgrade to 5.0 makes the upgrade path much more flexible. There's a big differe

Re: md, current and stable

2001-02-06 Thread John Baldwin
On 06-Feb-01 Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:34:39 +1100, "Chris Knight" wrote: > >> Since the new md was introduced, it is not possible to build a -current >> snapshot on a -stable box. Are there any plans to MFC this soon? > > Woah, what's the problem? This sounds like so

Re: md, current and stable

2001-02-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
AIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: md, current and stable >> >> >> On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:34:39 +1100, "Chris Knight" wrote: >> >> > Since the new md was introduced, it is not possible to >> build a -current >> > snapshot

RE: md, current and stable

2001-02-06 Thread Chris Knight
Howdy, > -Original Message- > From: Sheldon Hearn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2001 20:38 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: md, current and stable > > > On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:34:39

Re: md, current and stable

2001-02-06 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 06 Feb 2001 16:34:39 +1100, "Chris Knight" wrote: > Since the new md was introduced, it is not possible to build a -current > snapshot on a -stable box. Are there any plans to MFC this soon? Woah, what's the problem? This sounds like something that should be fixed, not covered up with