On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 04:07:00PM +0100, Henning Brauer wrote: > > The second problem are flag days, when something has changed such > > that you almost certainly want to reinstall the OS. The move from > > a.out to ELF binary format is a good example of that. > > ah yeah, and that happens every second week. > reality check: how often does that happen really? > the last "real" flag day on i386 was the a.out -> ELF move. > When was that? 3.3 I think. almost 5 years ago.
I think the OP may have wanted something automated/scripted. While "true" flag days are rare, -current often has some steps to perform as listed on current.html. Since I've been following -current those steps have been simple and easy to perform, but -current isn't something you should do unattended from a cron job. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD User Group | MetaBUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://phxbug.org/ | http://metabug.org/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ | Daemons in the Desert | Global BUG Federation
