Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 16:42:34 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: remorse code <rone@ennui.org>, nik@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004031631320.36725-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004040720250.31476-100000@backup.af.speednet.com.au>
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How about having an UPDATING and an UPGRADING file? One could explain a simple upgrade of a similar branch while the upgrade file will explain how to go from 3.x to 4.0 and above. That would make it clear that there is a different method for the two situations. I would also like to see a VERSION file which could detail what version the source tree is and information about that version... url's to the release and errata pages and whatnot. I have copied this email to Nik Clayton, the person listed as documentation project manager... http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/staff-who.html If anyone has suggestions for documenation, perhaps it should copied to Nick Clayton so he can take some action. And if anyone would like to assist in creating the documentation.. he's the man to contact as well. I would like to help, but it seems like too much work. In order to get fully involved I would have to join the doc mailing list and then find a role to fill. I am currenlty keeping up with the daemonnews.org core mailing list where I am helping with the development of that site. If you are not contributing to the bsd community, perhaps you can offer your assistance here. I have not been contributing until recently because I felt I needed to learn so much before anything I do would be useful. Now I have reached a certain level of understanding and am starting to contribute more and more. Perhaps you could spare an hour or two a week to update or create some documentation. I am sure it will be appreciated. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: I have more humility in my little finger than you have in your whole ____BODY! -- from "Cerebus" #82 On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > 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. <rone@ennui.org> > > > > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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