Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:25:03 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Aleksey Zvyagin <zal@rest.ru>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314171206.19968D-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <2972.889920790@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Obviously it doesn't work to respond to questions in freebsd-questions > > (people don't read it until they run into trouble) or the newsgroup. > > And not everyone subscribes to -stable. What you need is a README file > > that arrives with the sources and ends up in /usr/src and has the latest > > info on what has to be done that the make world won't do. > > Though that wouldn't have solved the login.conf problem. I think what > you're really saying is that we need a better starter document that > covers the latest errata and any special build instructions. :) > > Jordan I think I'm trying to say that the information on *how to get* the latest errata and any special build instructions (or whatever) needs to arrive with the goods; one can't expect people to pick up this information in some other place--on some newsgroup or mailing list. At least, I think this has the best chance of reducing the repetitive questions. For the cdrom sets, the brochure that goes in the package should have a little note that says something about getting information that became available after the cd's were made. This can be a standard location, e.g., the location of the errata.txt file on the web site or WC CDROM for a particular release. For sources obtained with cvsup, a README file that ends up in the one directory that has to be visited (/usr/src) that either provides information or directs the reader to information is all that's needed. Annelise To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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