From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 14:26:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.188.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E035C37B5FD for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 14:26:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA31688; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 07:26:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 07:26:00 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.af.speednet.com.au To: remorse code Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed In-Reply-To: <200004032108.OAA13540@shell13.ba.best.com> 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, remorse code wrote: > I don't know how feasible this would be, but could there be a .mk or > /usr/src/Makefile knob that compares the OS version of the to-be-built > source versus the current OS version, and spit out "WARNING: you are > upgrading to a new OS version. Please read the following:", then spit > out the contents of /usr/src/UPDATING? Not too bad an idea... but I have yet to figure out how you tell what version of FreeBSD code is in your src/ tree! The other suggestion I have is to rename UPDATING to UPGRADING. > > rone > -- > Insultant: n. Contract worker who gets paid an obscene hourly wage to insult > full-time company employees. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message