From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 2 18:20:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7697F37BC7B for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 18:20:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA85465; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:20:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id TAA56572; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:19:48 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004030119.TAA56572@harmony.village.org> To: Brennan W Stehling Subject: Re: make world failed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 02 Apr 2000 20:13:37 CDT." References: Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2000 19:19:48 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Brennan W Stehling writes: : gosh, thanks for the helpful comments. Upgrading from source requires a lot of investment in time to get right. Failure to make that investment will result in a bad system. : actually, i did research this as much as i could. i have done this many : times in the past, but not over the major boundary. and when i was : looking over that make world page it did not offer any warning about not : working for the 4.0 upgrade. I'll make sure that it is changed then. I could have sworn that we put some warnings in between the 2.x -> 3.0 upgrade. : if i cannot trust the official freebsd website to provide me with proper : instructions, why would i choose to continue using this operating system? You have every right to expect that to be up to date and have all the usual warnings. : i do not know who you are, but perhaps you should consider your comments : before sending them off next time. I maintain the UPDATING file, which contains most all of the instructions that you'll need to upgrade from 3.4 -> 4.0. : it's not like i can buy a detailed book on freebsd or find a detailed web : page on the official freebsd website which assists me in moving from 3.x : to 4.0. perhaps someone on this list can volunteer to submit a helpful : article to one of the bsd sites to assist people like myself who want to : learn but need a little help in administering this fine operating system. Agreed. Like I said, I'll do what I can to make sure that the makeworld part of the handbook is updated to reflect what is and isn't supported. And also to put a pointer to the UPDATING file. Thanks for the comments. Sorry I was so harsh on you. Part of that was for the archives for the next person who looks through the mailing list archives looking for pitfalls will know better. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message