From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 19:40:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFCE937BC3A for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 19:40:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@northwestern.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA09417 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:40:20 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (coconut-37-028057.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.57]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma009345; Fri, 7 Jul 00 21:39:55 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA05252 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:38:41 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 21:38:41 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: FreeBSD stable Subject: UPDATING is confusing me Message-ID: <20000707213841.A5215@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: FreeBSD stable Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 3.5-STABLE FreeBSD 3.5-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The latest RELENG_4 UPDATING (version 1.73.2.6) file is confusing me because I don't know how much of the historical information applies to someone like me, who wants to upgrade from 3.5-Stable to 4.0-Stable. Perhaps I don't understand the concept of UPDATING (it's always been a blank file during my upgrades): Why is there months-old historical information that is necessary for me to follow, even though my sources (albeit 3.5) are very current? Here's an example: The note for 19991218 has sendmail.cf moved to /etc/mail, but my system works perfectly fine with sendmail.cf in /etc. And another: The note for 19991210 has the wd driver replaced with the ata driver, but my machine works fine with the wd driver. My system started with an install from the 3.4-Release CD-ROM a few months ago, then went to 3.4-Stable and then 3.5-Stable via source upgrades. How far back do I need to go in the historical information? Is this historical information taken from when 4.X was -current, and that's why the dates don't match up for me, who was tracking 3.X? -- David Kanter djkanter@northwestern.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message