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Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:49:01 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Garrett Cooper <ngie@FreeBSD.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r278561 - head
Message-ID:  <201502110749.t1B7n1DV026630@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: ngie
Date: Wed Feb 11 07:49:00 2015
New Revision: 278561
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278561

Log:
  Document caveat with specifying WITHOUT_VI at build/install time when building
  older releases of FreeBSD

Modified:
  head/UPDATING

Modified: head/UPDATING
==============================================================================
--- head/UPDATING	Wed Feb 11 07:44:53 2015	(r278560)
+++ head/UPDATING	Wed Feb 11 07:49:00 2015	(r278561)
@@ -292,6 +292,16 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 11
 	The lindev device has been removed since /dev/full has been made a
 	standard device.  __FreeBSD_version has been bumped.
 
+20140424:
+	The knob WITHOUT_VI was added to the base system, which controls
+	building ex(1), vi(1), etc. Older releases of FreeBSD required ex(1)
+	in order to reorder files share/termcap and didn't build ex(1) as a
+	build tool, so building/installing with WITH_VI is highly advised for
+	build hosts for older releases.
+
+	This issue has been fixed in stable/9 and stable/10 in r277022 and
+	r276991, respectively.
+
 20140418:
 	The YES_HESIOD knob has been removed. It has been obsolete for
 	a decade. Please move to using WITH_HESIOD instead or your builds



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