From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 14 3:15:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D46037B63D; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 03:15:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13D2V4-000Gdq-00; Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:15:18 +0200 Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:15:18 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Shawn Barnhart Cc: Kris Kennaway , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels Message-ID: <20000714121518.A63927@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <00b801bfeb66$94ab2960$9b239fc0@mobocracy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <00b801bfeb66$94ab2960$9b239fc0@mobocracy>; from swb@grasslake.net on Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 01:33:58PM -0500 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue 2000-07-11 (13:33), Shawn Barnhart wrote: > Fascinating discussion. > > I guess I don't care which tools I use, so long as they do the right > thing, and, most importantly THAT THE METHODS ARE TOTALLY DOCUMENTED > WITH ALL THE QUIRKS IN THE FSCK'N HANDBOOK AND NOT JUST IN THE MAILING > LIST ARCHIVE! Do you have any suggested text you'd like to see there? > One thing that frustrates me about FBSD is the "docrot" of the handbook. > When I was getting started with FBSD I seemed to stumble across many > things that, while not exactly incorrect, were nevertheless incomplete > or outmoded by newer/better/smarter ways of doing things. Do you have any list of outdated bits, so that there can actually be an improvement, instead of making the documentation team sit there in frustration looking at contentless complaints and forgetting that they've done an incredible job? You can either send your patches to me, or use send-pr. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message