how dangerous would it be to switch to 5.1-current?

Christoph P. Kukulies kuku at kukulies.org
Tue Nov 18 13:02:00 PST 2003


On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 10:36:39PM +0100, Michael Reifenberger wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, C. Kukulies wrote:
> 
> > Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:33:23 +0100 (CET)
> > From: C. Kukulies <kuku at www.kukulies.org>
> > To: freebsd-isdn at freebsd.org
> > Subject: how dangerous would it be to switch to 5.1-current?
> >
> > With a gateway machine that runs 4.8 stable I'm considering to
> > switch to 5.1-current (cvsup) at the danger of being off-net
> > after the upgrade. Should I?
> >
> 
> Too dangerous.
> If you ask this question ('cause you havn't tried), you shouldn't upgrade.
> At least not to -current. Maybe RELENG_4.

Well, I have gone through a couple of such situations in the past since
386bsd :-)

It's just the question whether i4b still works or works again 
under -current. Under 5.0 there were problems due to timer changes
in the kernel.

Is anybody running i4b under -current?

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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_physik.rwth-aachen.de


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