Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:00:42 +0200 From: Joan Picanyol <lists-freebsd-current@biaix.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: /usr/ports/UPDATING announcement (was: Re: Xorg built fails on CURRENT: can't find Xauth.h) Message-ID: <20040728170042.GA28008@grummit.biaix.org> In-Reply-To: <20040727211314.N80850@xeon.unixathome.org> References: <20040727223701.07D1B5D08@ptavv.es.net> <1090975480.534.3.camel@zircon> <20040727211314.N80850@xeon.unixathome.org>
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* Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> [20040728 03:13]: > On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Joe Kelsey wrote: > > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 15:37, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> > > > > But... there is nothing in UPDATING. I have copied the list just in case > > > > someone out there thinks there should be. Right now: > > > > > > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>grep -i xorg UPDATING > > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>grep -i libwnck UPDATING > > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>grep -i libxklavier UPDATING > > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>ls -l UPDATING > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 69125 Jul 25 16:37 UPDATING > > > > > > > > Considering that this is ports issue, I honestly did not expect > > > > anything in UPDATING anyway. > > > > > > > Which UPDATING file? > > > > ls -l /usr/ports/UPDATING > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19155 Jul 27 03:56 /usr/ports/UPDATING > > > > > > ports has its own and that is where to look for such information on ports. > > > > This is EXACTLY the reason that we need to ADVERTISE the NEW UPDATING > > file much more! I encountered another problem which had an entry in > > /usr/ports/UPDATING, but since I completely missed the months-old > > announcement of the creationof the file, I never looked there and got > > yelled at my many, many people for my supposed stupidity! > > I'm all for announcing it. I never heard of it until last week. I too > was told to read it, I was stupid for not reading it, why aren't you > reading it? Me too :o > > We need to have a regular announcement on -CURRENT, -STABLE and all > > ports-related newsgroups that /usr/ports/UPDATING exists and needs to be > > looked at regularly! Just because someone created it many months ago > > does not mean that everyone knows about it! > > It needs to go out on freebsd-announce IMHO. And the Handbook as well. qvb -- pica
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