From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 10:10:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 062CD37B404 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:10:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp800.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp800.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09FFD43FAF for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:10:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antonzav@pacbell.net) Received: from adsl-63-206-118-101.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO travel) (antonzav@pacbell.net@63.206.118.101 with login) by smtp-sbc-v1.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 21 Apr 2003 17:10:08 -0000 From: "Anton Zavrin" To: "'Doug Barton'" Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:09:01 -0700 Message-ID: <004601c30828$b522d9e0$0200a8c0@travel> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20030421095522.B2827@znfgre.tberna.bet> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4920.2300 Importance: Normal cc: "'Simon L. Nielsen'" cc: 'Rick Flosi' cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD-Stable and Upgrading to FreeBSD-Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:10:10 -0000 What actually stopped me from using handbook is this: # make -x -DVARIABLE target As always I was following step-by-step instructions (good learning process ;-) ) and the above command didn't work at all, the reason being is that there is no "-x' switch in make command, at least in the "make" I have. Best Regards, Anton -----Original Message----- From: Doug Barton [mailto:DougB@FreeBSD.org] Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 9:57 AM To: Anton Zavrin Cc: 'Simon L. Nielsen'; 'Rick Flosi'; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Installing FreeBSD-Stable and Upgrading to FreeBSD-Stable On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Anton Zavrin wrote: > The Best and the Easiest handbook of how to update FreeBSD I could found > > http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/cvsup.html This page has several bad suggestions, and most of what it suggests is sub-optimal at best. I would suggest sticking with the handbook. If there is anything there that's out of date, or unclear, the doc team would like to know about it. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html -- This .signature sanitized for your protection