Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 07:03:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: make world failed Message-ID: <200004041103.HAA00721@server.baldwin.cx> In-Reply-To: <20000404103655.A310@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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On 04-Apr-00 Michel TALON wrote: > I have upgraded from source yesterday to 4.0-Stable following the nice > instructions at the beginning of UPDATING and everything turned out fine. > Congratulations to the developpers and particularly to W. Losh for its > addenda to UPGRADING. However, i am reading the stable mailing list and > was aware that several people had screwed their machine doing this upgrade. > Two weeks ago, the instructions in UPGRADING were everything except clear. > So, as is often the case one needs to wait a little bit that several people > run into trouble before plunging in the game. This is unfortunate, because > it means that ordinary users (not following CURRENT) cannot test the > candidate release as soon as possible, thereby detecting unusual bugs without > risking very much. Had the correct and detailed explanations been written > a month ago, it would have been very possible. ---------------------------- revision 1.71 date: 2000/02/23 05:51:02; author: imp; state: Exp; lines: +4 -2 Slightly improved 3.x -> current instructions. ---------------------------- revision 1.70 date: 2000/02/22 01:50:25; author: imp; state: Exp; lines: +22 -4 Add 3.x -> 4.0 upgrade instructions Make it plainer the kernel rebuild required point. I had thought these changes were already in. ---------------------------- That last commit was on February 23. Today is April 4, looks like over a month to me. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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