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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: When is 2.2R due out?
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 06:55:13 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Johan Granlund <johang@algonet.se>

Johan Granlund wrote:
> Am i correct to assume that we who are tracking -stable will
> automatically se our versionnumber step from  2.1.x to 2.2.x or have
> we to reinstall and begin from scratch?

You should automagically see your version number step.  There might have
to be a transitionary make target in /usr/src called "upgrade" which you
run only once, but we'll figure out something.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project