Subject: Re: When is the next release or snapshot due?
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Sean Witham <Sean.Witham@asa.co.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/05/1997 18:51:47
Is it that easy though, i.e. how effect is it handling the local
configurations for you kernel and system files ? I only ask because I
haven't tried to upgrade the 1.2 machine I have to 1.2.1 yet for fear
of the down time this may cause.

--Sean

On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Perry E. Metzger wrote:

> 
> Sean Witham writes:
> > Admin of upgrades is going to need a tool that allows the upgrade of
> > a NetBSD release to the latest official release with a simple run,
> > confirm options, and reboot whilst leaveing all the installed tools
> > intact and if possible using any custom config file for the kernel to
> > reconfigure/compile at the same time ! With out such a tool or set of
> > tools upgrading to a new release is goign to take up too much time.
> 
> We have ALWAYS had automated upgrade tools.
> 
> Perry
>