Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:24:18 +0300 (EEST) From: Jukka Simila <juksi@iname.com> To: David Murphy <drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <XFMail.000406012418.juksi@iname.com> In-Reply-To: <20000405180855.O13499@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie>
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On 05-Apr-00 David Murphy wrote: > Quoting <XFMail.000405185723.juksi@iname.com> > by Jukka Simila <juksi@iname.com>: > >> that showed me a list of files, and there was BIG LETTERS: UPDATING >> I thought, well, I'm now running 3.4, and I'm about to install 4.0, >> so I'd guess that's called UPDATING. Some common sense, I think? I >> read the UPDATING and followed those very simple instructions there >> (well I have to admit I couldn't build a custom kernel before I had >> updated the system with GENERIC, but that really isn't a big >> problem) > > Where in UPDATING did you find the update instructions? I did the same > as you, except when I came to read UPDATING, it looked like a > changelog, so i stopped reading after a 5 pages or so - little did I > know at the time that the critical instructions were at the end of the > file. Shortly after, those paragraphs were moved to the top of > UPDATING, which is a vast improvement, and greatly improves the > chances of basically clueful people finding the instructions. It's > this level of improvement that the docs need most - moving/putting > pointers to pre-existing text to places where the basically clueful > will look. apparently i was lucky: info was at the top of the file, so the file had already been updated that way before i got it. @-`--,--`--- Jukka Simila To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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