On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:58:12PM +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 08:15:09AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > 
> > > I would rather have some explicit list of filenames where we have
> > > good reason to delete them, and then adapt the above script to at
> > > least tell the user about the remaining files.  Perhaps even delete
> > > them, but only *after* saving a copy away in some tar file.  Just
> > > to do something which is a bit friendlier to all the people who
> > > will be seeing 5.0 for the first time.
> > 
> > Yeah, this is essentially what I was asking for.
> 
> Anyone have a trash-box that we can do a 4-STABLE --> 5-CURRENT
> upgrade on to diff the file list?
> 
> I have a box that I'd rather not trash, but if need be I'll use that.

You can probably just do it in a jail, by successively unpacking the
various 4.x-release installation distributions (everything except the
sources..actually, maybe those too, since things will break if people
try to just unpack the new 5.0 sources over the 4.x sources).

Kris

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