On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 20:02, Jo Rhett wrote: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:26:44AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > How do you expect these two to be handled in a binary upgrade? > > I can't see how it's possible.. > > Look around. Every major commercial OS does it just fine. Most of the > open source OSes do it just fine. Debian had probably the easiest to use > system, and they've risen, owned the world and fallen all while FreeBSD has > been debating this issue. You appear to be misunderstanding what I said. I'm not arguing binary upgrades shouldn't be done but I'm suggesting that it isn't NECESSARY to version and package the base install to do it. > > I don't think integrating it with the core OS (whatever that means) will > > magically fix this. > > If you knew what it meant, you would understand why it would help. Ah what a great explanation of what is meant. There are several people who don't know what is meant here and I haven't seen a decent explanation forthcoming. > > Not having run jails I am not very qualified to comment > > Exactly. Sorry, not trying to be rude but if you have never felt the pain > don't try and say it doesn't exist. Just because I don't run jails doesn't mean I don't know the pain of upgrading a system. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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