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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Which 2.2 branch to upgrade June snapshot?
Date: 23 Dec 1996 22:53:10 GMT
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bob@nemesis.its.berkeley.edu (bob prohaska) wrote:

> I've been running a June snapshot of 2.2 quite successfully, and having got
> more disk space would like to try upgrading the existing installation. 
> In the meantime the June snap has been replaced by October and ALPHA.
> What is the appropriate release of 2.2 if I want to add packages or sources?

There's only one line of packages at all, so you don't have much of
a choice.

As for sources, if you've already got ALPHA, it's probably best to
wait for the BETA.  (It's been due today, but it seems Jordan ran into
some problems that cost him another day.)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)