Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 16:18:06 -0700 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Andrew Berg <aberg010@my.hennepintech.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd-update to 9.3 from 9.2 Message-ID: <C2DBFFD6-303C-4D54-A850-D21C5D383F5E@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407201556030.48048@wonkity.com> References: <4CA0146F-BD4E-4613-9050-DB0C1FDB7EA4@lafn.org> <53C8B7A2.1060504@my.hennepintech.edu> <494D0D9E-ED60-4187-ABCF-8E18CDEAB911@lafn.org> <53C8E2A7.6000000@my.hennepintech.edu> <FD3DC529-BB02-4EE2-8F09-179125D832FE@lafn.org> <7154054C-47D0-454C-8601-3F17095476EC@lafn.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407181659180.29137@wonkity.com> <066C2341-F26F-4817-B681-97119FB7EB7C@lafn.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407190624090.26467@wonkity.com> <0A5E66FF-D8B0-4619-91AC-C99BC2AEA04D@lafn.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407201211090.84953@wonkity.com> <0501F769-338A-4B23-AC7B-DBFC55C9387E@lafn.org> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1407201556030.48048@wonkity.com>
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On 20 July 2014, at 15:02, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jul 2014, Doug Hardie wrote: >=20 >>=20 >> On 20 July 2014, at 11:12, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >>=20 >>> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Doug Hardie wrote: >>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> On 19 July 2014, at 05:27, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >>>>=20 >>>>> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Doug Hardie wrote: >>>>>=20 >>>>>> On 18 July 2014, at 16:01, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> = wrote: >>>>>>> It's not necessary to delete the source every time. But = /usr/src should be empty before the initial svn checkout, or there will = be files in there that are unmanaged and can cause problems. The = Subversion instructions mention this. (Or at least some of them do, we = have a fair amount of similar sections in different chapters and = sections that need to be combined.) >>>>>>>=20 >>>>>>=20 >>>>>> I didn't find any mention of that in the manual. >>>>>=20 >>>>> There is one here: >>>>>=20 >>>>> = http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/svn.html#svn-usa= ge >>>>>=20 >>>>=20 >>>> Yes there is, now that I understand it. For those who know - its = all there. For those who don't, its not obvious. The focus of the = manual should be different from the man pages. >>>=20 >>> I have reworked that warning to make it more clear. Is there = another place that this should be noted? >>>=20 >>=20 >> Not that I saw. I only saw that note and thought it didn't apply to = me. Wrong again? >=20 > Is there anything else we can do to help make it more clear? I don't = mean to put you on the spot, just that I've found these types of = problems often can be used to make valuable improvements in the = documentation. If you think of somewhere else it should be mentioned, = or a better way to explain it, please let me or the freebsd-doc mailing = list know. >=20 I would appreciate either examples or instructions with examples on how = to setup and properly update a system using svn. Those are the most = common things admins do if they are not involved in the development of = FreeBSD. There used to be some good info on that in the handbook back = when we used cvsup. Think more tutorial and less man page constructs. = If I knew enough about the process, I'd try writing it, but so far most = of the things I have tried have not worked. Only one of the several = systems I have tried to update to use svn and pkg still works.
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