From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 13:16:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4462F37B6D0 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from slave (doug@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA02644; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:14:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:14:26 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Barton X-Sender: doug@dt051n0b.san.rr.com To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world failed In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > Once again I get flamed. > > I am not saying I did not screw up the install. That is obvious, but the > documentation did not give any warning that the 4.0 upgrade would not work > as the ugprades from any of the 3.x upgrades did. I realize 4.0 has many > radical changes, that is why I looked so hard to find more documentation > on the site. And totally ignored the warnings you did see on the documentation you did find. > I was subscribed to freebsd-announce and did not see anything on that list > to offer warning. Because that's not the list for that type of subject matter. > The makeworld.html page has side notes for 2.2.5, but nothing for the > current and stable versions. It just makes sense to me that any important > changes would be reflect on that page. Afterall, it is the official > FreeBSD handbook while the mailing list may not offer accurate help. Your logic is flawed. > In the future I think I will stick to reading online documentation and > avoid the mailing lists. Which will guarantee that you will have additional problems, and continue to point the finger of blame at others when viable solutions are available to you. Doug -- "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. The master simply replied, "Mu." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message