Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:52:06 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide Message-ID: <20040907175206.GC17387@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> References: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost>
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--tNQTSEo8WG/FKZ8E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 04:27:15PM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Howdy-- >=20 > I've volunteered to rework the 5.X Early Adopters Guide into a Migration > Guide. The focus of this document is less about discouraging unwary > users and more about what kinds of changes users might encounter when > they move from 4.X to 5.X. >=20 > I'd like to solicit a pre-commit review on the document at: >=20 > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html >=20 > A PDF rendering, as well as SGML source, also live in the same > directory. >=20 > The area I'm the most shaky on is the source upgrade procedure, which is > basically an annotated version of the procedure in src/UPDATING. I > haven't done this procedure in a *long* time, and I'm kind of short on > scratch systems (=3D> none) at the moment for testing the procedure. In > retrospect, I didn't actually plan on including this section, and I > might have been less eager to take on this task if I'd know it was > coming. :-) >=20 In the source upgrade section, item 9 (preseedrandom) should no longer be necessicary. It's harmless, and possiably slightly helpful, but not necessicary since markm has the rng act seeded by default. I'd personally suggest wording the "don't do a source update" bit more strongly, though I'm not sure how. Maybe a suggestion to see this as an opportunity to set up that backup infrastructure you've been meaning to install for the last decade. :-) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --tNQTSEo8WG/FKZ8E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBPfVFXY6L6fI4GtQRAuYMAKDLy6tRkpKk6Wd4r49qAiMoHLyY/ACfRj95 dVqesR4j8olVkEEstG/TPDQ= =y8IL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tNQTSEo8WG/FKZ8E--
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