From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 17:50:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7B9616A4CE; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:50:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FC1043D31; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:50:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i87Hq6xa003370; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:52:06 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id i87Hq6ch003369; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:52:06 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 10:52:06 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: "Bruce A. Mah" Message-ID: <20040907175206.GC17387@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tNQTSEo8WG/FKZ8E" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:50:35 -0000 --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--