Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 12:42:17 +0000 (GMT) From: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com> To: jhb@FreeBSD.ORG (John Baldwin) Cc: mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Doug@gorean.org Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <200004041242.MAA10528@loki.ideaglobal.com> In-Reply-To: <200004032055.QAA99540@server.baldwin.cx> from John Baldwin at "Apr 3, 2000 4:55:48 pm"
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<snip> > > Soon, we'll read, that one needs to follow this mailing lists to even > > use FreeBSD. This is wrong -- the original poster is not "tracking > > -stable", by which I mean regular rebuilds. He merely wanted to go from > > one release to another -- once. And did it the way he always did before, > > after consulting the same information sources he consulted before. > > I think that in that situation you should probably still read -stable. > However, the existence of UPDATING and its meaning wasn't communicated well > to the mass population of -stable users. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I sort-of recall people screaming at the 2.2.x -> 3.0 upgrade time that the UPDATING file has no info in it ... And those people got a harsh flaming down for "consulting a file that is old and not maintained", yada yada yada ..... > The main reason is that UPDATING > is mainly useful for people running -current, as -current tends to have a > lot more bumps in the road that have to be worked around. However, 3.x > has also had an UPDATING file, albeit one that doesn't have much in it since > -stable really wasn't the original intended target, so UPDATING wasn't > completely hidden. <snip> > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ -- Kiril Mitev, IT Operations Mgr, London IDEAglobal.com Standard Corporate Disclaimer applies, see http://www.ideaglobal.com/email-disclaimer.html for details. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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