From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 30 8:45:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dt014n8c.san.rr.com (dt011n66.san.rr.com [204.210.13.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F182615A07 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:45:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014n8c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA39202; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37F38577.3FDC10F7@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:44:55 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Harold Gutch , Ben Rosengart , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to avoid bullets in the feet (was Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changescommitted) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > What's really needed is some warning sort of like what we > did when the AOUT->ELF convertion happened, there has > to be a simple way to test this as part of installworld. I think this would help. It also leads me to a request that's been in mind for a while, namely a way to detect that someone is attempting to go from 2.2.x to 3.x or 4.x via 'make world' which will abort the procedure and tell them about 'make upgrade'. I was going to try and figure this out myself, and still will if no one else takes it, but this would stop about 3 letters to -questions per week, and much more as time goes on and more people upgrade. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message