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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.1.6.1 instability or can cvsup take me to 2.2?
Date: 19 Jan 1997 22:23:12 GMT
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craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) wrote:

> ccd drive and the panic seems to involve a sync I suspect ccd.  Has
> there been any changes to ccd in the past few months that I should
> know about?

About the only change in ccd that looks like a bugfix and that went in
after 2.1.6.1 is:

revision 1.16
date: 1996/07/24 23:45:24;  author: asami;  state: Exp;  lines: +36 -28
Fail when odd number of disks are specified with mirror flag.  Memory
leak fixes.  Miscellaneous cleanup.

Partially submitted by: Matt White <mwhite+@CMU.EDU>


> So, since -stable is no longer stable for me, can cvsup get me to
> 2.2.x or is it better to install from disks?

It's no problem to upgrade via the source.  Simply do a `make world'.
Don't give up if something unforseeable happens, try to resolve the
problem, and continue with the make/make install.

-- 
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. ;-)