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Date:      Fri, 6 Feb 2015 14:34:57 -0700
From:      Adam Weinberger <adamw@adamw.org>
To:        Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r278258 - stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes
Message-ID:  <F0084C25-6272-4F65-8C1B-505B59EB4724@adamw.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150206190055.GE1300@hub.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201502051307.t15D7f3C013141@svn.freebsd.org> <346B0A61-964A-4009-9D5D-A5B79970182B@adamw.org> <20150206190055.GE1300@hub.FreeBSD.org>

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> On 6 Feb, 2015, at 12:00, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 06:35:06AM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
>>> On 5 Feb, 2015, at 6:07, Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> It also notes:
>>=20
>>> +    <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the =
&os;
>>> +      base system from source code) from previous versions are
>>> +      supported, according to the instructions in
>>> +      <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
>>=20
>> Any chance something similar can happen for /usr/src/UPDATING?
>> In the stable/* and releng/* branches, the how-to-upgrade information
>> appears nearly 2,000 lines down. Maybe:
>>=20
>> - Everything from most recent branch, (or most recent - 1?) onward
>> - "COMMON ITEMS"
>> - Everything else
>>=20
>=20
> I like this idea.
>=20
> I've also been kicking around the idea of moving the 'COMMON ITEMS' =
and
> everything else to a separate file, since they tend to change less
> regularly.
>=20
> Thoughts on which approach would be more beneficial for the end-user?

If I were an end-user, the first place I'd want to look for build =
instructions would be a file called BUILD_INSTRUCTIONS. :-)

# Adam


--=20
Adam Weinberger
adamw@adamw.org
http://www.adamw.org





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