Okay, so what would the procedure be for upgrading from 1.3 to 1.3.1?

Chris

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Chris wrote:
> > 
> > > Now that 1.3.1 is available what is the best way to upgrade.   Do I just 
> > > have to get the new kernel or is there more involved?
> > > 
> > > Please don't tell me its like upgrading from 1.2x to 1.3...=)
> > 
> > At this time 1.3.1 appears to exist only as a patch to the _sources_. 
> > Meaning that it's only useful if you're commited to first downloading all
> > the sources, and then rebuilding userland. It's main purpose seems to be
> > to save a lot of time if you're setting up a new machine to run -current,
> > as there are extensive changes in the libs and tools since 1.3. 
> 
> Not at all.  I'm pretty sure that 1.3.1 binaries are available for
> NetBSD/mac68k.  The upgrade procedure is the same as that for 1.2.x ->
> 1.3.  Of course, you don't necessarily have to install everything.  Take a
> look at the CHANGES doc (I think that's it) to see what improvements/fixes
> have been made.
> 
> As for 1.3.1 being a stepping stone to -current, no, it's not.  Two months
> prior to the 1.3 release, the 1.2G -current source tree was split
> (branched, whatever).  Bug fixes and changes continued to be made to
> -current, while generally only bug fixes were pulled up to what was now
> the 1.3 release branch.  Once the branch had stabilized, the branch was
> "frozen" and the 1.3 release was made.  At this point, many changes,
> improvements, fixes, etc were still being made to the -current development
> branch.  Following the 1.3 release, some bug fixes (usually for security
> bugs or major functionality fixes) were pulled up to the 1.3.x release
> branch, finally culminating in the 1.3.1 patch release 2 weeks ago.  Many
> ports have created full binary sets for the 1.3.1 release.
> 
> So, as you can see, no true development has been done on the 1.3 branch.
> That's left for -current.  When 1.3.2 comes out (and it probably will
> before 1.4), it wil be even further removed from -current (which is at
> 1.3E, I think).  If you want to run -current, you'll need to get a
> complete set of -current binaries.  The latest patch release just won't
> cut it.
> 
> I hope this clears things up just a wee bit.
> 
> Later.
> 
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> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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