Am 17.01.2012 um 20:54 schrieb Steven Hartland: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Kozubik" <j...@kozubik.com> >> It's amazing how many people are in the exact same boats - waiting for 8.3, >> getting locked out of new motherboards because em(4) can't be "backported" >> to even the production release... > > This is not true, only last week did we take the version of e1000 from > HEAD into our 8.2-RELEASE tree as a patch. It wasnt totally trivial but > it also wasnt difficult either. But it would still be preferable for > many not to have to do this I assume?
freebsd-update its the keyword. Many of our customers could use (and do - most of them are paying peanuts for their IT staff) trained monkeys for system upgrades if they stay on -RELEASE steps. Alternatively: Use properly versioned binaries and get freebsd-update working on arbitrary versions. Achim _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
