From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 14 17:30:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA14280 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:30:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (root@andrsn.Stanford.EDU [36.33.0.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA14178; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:29:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA20134; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:25:04 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:25:03 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Aleksey Zvyagin , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help! Upgrade 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2-STABLE. In-Reply-To: <2972.889920790@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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