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Date:      Wed, 5 Jan 2005 18:10:21 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Cc:        kris@obsecurity.org
Subject:   Re: System update
Message-ID:  <20050106021020.GA19423@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200501060155.j061tRYk027069@mail.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <20050106014855.GA11069@xor.obsecurity.org> <200501060155.j061tRYk027069@mail.cs.ait.ac.th>

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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:55:27AM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote:
> > Where does it say that?  I see only comments in passing about 'make
> > world', but the explicit directions on how to update (correctly)
> > mention the separate buildworld/installworld steps.
>=20
> Around line 490 of /usr/src/UPDATING (version 4.10-p5) it reads:
>=20
> 	To rebuild everything
> 	---------------------
> 	make world
>=20
> 	Except when it doesn't work :-)

OK, turns out the copy in my allegedly RELENG_4 tree was from HEAD.
The above is strictly true, but not helpful since it doesn't tell you
when it doesn't work.

For the full guaranteed-to-work instructions, read the section a few
lines down about updating "from 4.0-RELEASE or later to the most
current 4.x-STABLE".

Kris

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