From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 6 3:28: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4C437B400 for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 03:28:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A9A43E3B for ; Fri, 6 Sep 2002 03:28:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tapeworm@insekta.org) Received: from [12.246.29.145] (helo=domina.insekta.org) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 17nGLM-0001Ti-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 03:28:04 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 03:25:48 -0700 From: tapeworm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading and updating .... extremely complicated for me. Message-Id: <20020906032548.2abacaee.tapeworm@insekta.org> In-Reply-To: <20020906075159.GA10475@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20020906055902.96384.qmail@web20110.mail.yahoo.com> <20020906075159.GA10475@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Organization: the insekta organization X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.1 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 19:51:59 +1200 Jonathan Chen wrote: > and it doesn't say anywhere that you should do a "make world". In fact > the Handbook recommends against it. If you're not comfortable with > reading the stuff in the Handbook, perhaps you shouldn't be thinking of > going with -stable. > > Going with -stable means you must be willing to read the instructions, > and the Handbook is *THE* source. If you find any parts you don't > understand, let us know. i would highly agree with this statement. until you understand more about overall system use, diving into things that could break your system like running -stable is just not a good idea. i do hope, however, that "bsd neophyte" understands that running -stable or -current is not the way to upgrade your ports and/or documentation. - erik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message