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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.portal.ca!van-bc!unixg.ubc.ca!info.ucla.edu!agate!violet.berkeley.edu!jkh From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 12 May 1996 13:36:43 GMT Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4n4phb$kg5@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4n0dhd$cff@agate.berkeley.edu> <3194622D.41C67EA6@Ami-chan.res.cmu.edu> <4n2obr$f51@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu In article <4n2obr$f51@agate.berkeley.edu>, Nick Kralevich <nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU> wrote: >With FreeBSD, the recommended thing to do is to do a complete reinstall >from scratch. There is no feature in FreeBSD to do easy upgrades. There has been an `upgrade' option available since FreeBSD 2.1R. >>A merit of FreeBSD's centralized development, it is far easier to obtain >>the source to FreeBSD system files than hunting for source code to >>programs that came pre-compiled on a system. > >I'm not sure what your talking about. For preinstalled binaries from >a distribution, all you have to do is look in that distributions He's talking about _staying in sync_ once you have the base distribution, e.g. you just want something to automagically keep /usr/src on "upgrade path" status without having to mess around with FTP or knowing when something has changed. Both sup and CTM handle this. >Check out the Japanese HOWTO at >http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/JE-HOWTO.html Not really a substitute to a set of `fire and forget' wrappers, now is it? Jordan