From owner-freebsd-current Mon Jan 22 15:49: 0 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (unknown [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B6F37B69E; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:48:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0MNlwx13734; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:47:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0MNlYs11373; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:47:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200101222325.f0MNPA913286@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 15:47:34 -0800 (PST) Organization: BSD, Inc. From: John Baldwin To: Warner Losh Subject: Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 ) Cc: Mike Meyer , Kris Kennaway , "Donald J . Maddox" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, The Hermit Hacker , Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 22-Jan-01 Warner Losh wrote: > In message John Baldwin writes: >: >: Erm, if it wasn't documented in the first place, making a change doesn't >: put the burden of documenting the old behavior on the person making the >: change. > > It was in the handbook, explicitly documented. Nothing undocumented > about it. If I were to change how ls worked in some way, I'd be > exepcted to update the man page for ls. This is no different than > that. This is the documented way to build kernels, see > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html > for the current instructions. They have been in there since at least > 1.29 (alex 15-Jul-00): &prompt.root; make... > 1.29 (alex 15-Jul-00): &prompt.root; make... > when alex added them. That's at least 6 months ago. They have been > in UPDATING longer than that. Nm. I was referring to the original request: >: >: Could you also make sure it makes it into /etc/defaults/make.conf >: >: (KERNEL isn't mentioned there at all) and make.conf(5)? Which basically says: "this wasn't documented before, can you document it now?" But anyways, this isn't really worth the effort. My laptop still isn't booting, so I'll get back to that.... -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message