Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:08:55 +0000 From: David Murphy <drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <20000405180855.O13499@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.000405185723.juksi@iname.com>; from juksi@iname.com on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:57:23PM %2B0300 References: <20000404220906.K53658@cage.tse-online.de> <XFMail.000405185723.juksi@iname.com>
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Quoting <XFMail.000405185723.juksi@iname.com> by Jukka Simila <juksi@iname.com>: > that showed me a list of files, and there was BIG LETTERS: UPDATING > I thought, well, I'm now running 3.4, and I'm about to install 4.0, > so I'd guess that's called UPDATING. Some common sense, I think? I > read the UPDATING and followed those very simple instructions there > (well I have to admit I couldn't build a custom kernel before I had > updated the system with GENERIC, but that really isn't a big > problem) Where in UPDATING did you find the update instructions? I did the same as you, except when I came to read UPDATING, it looked like a changelog, so i stopped reading after a 5 pages or so - little did I know at the time that the critical instructions were at the end of the file. Shortly after, those paragraphs were moved to the top of UPDATING, which is a vast improvement, and greatly improves the chances of basically clueful people finding the instructions. It's this level of improvement that the docs need most - moving/putting pointers to pre-existing text to places where the basically clueful will look. -- 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
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