Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 2000 01:54:00 +0000
From:      David Murphy <drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance?)
Message-ID:  <20000322015400.B34538@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003211623180.71332-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>; from Doug@gorean.org on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 04:27:33PM -0800
References:  <20000321170118.M5367@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003211623180.71332-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Quoting <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003211623180.71332-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com>
by Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>:

> > but upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 is fiddly, and it
> > doesn't help that the instructions are counterintuitively at the
> > bottom of /usr/src/UPDATING which, to the untrained eye, looks like a
> > changelog, and lusers like me don't read changelogs to see if someone
> > happened to put vital instructions at the bottom of it.

> 	Caveat compiler. We NEVER suggest that lusers (or, less
> experienced users) upgrade from source, even for a point release. We
> ALWAYS tell them to upgrade from CD, or wipe their disk and do a clean
> install. If you choose the upgrade from source path, YOU take
> responsibility for adequately educating yourself. Period, end of story. 

Where, where, WHERE the F*** do "WE" say that? I'm stupid, point it
out to me. REERENCE the blindingly obvious piece of documentation I so
obviously missed. $50 Amazon gift certificate thing to the first
person that points out where on www.freebsd.org this is clearly
stated. No, refernces to mailing list postings won't do - I want to
see where a perfectly ordinary intelligent sysadmin new to FreeBSD
would find this information. Go on, I fscking DARE somebody.

-- 
When asked if it is true that he uses his wheelchair as a weapon he will reply:
"That's a malicious rumour. I'll run over anyone who repeats it."
Stephen Hawking - [http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/07/features/features1.html]
David Murphy - For PGP public key, send mail with Subject: send-pgp-key


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000322015400.B34538>