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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2004 04:50:56 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andre Guibert de Bruet <andy@siliconlandmark.com>
To:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Upgrading world from 5.0-dp1 to 5.1-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <20040213044923.G34361@alpha.siliconlandmark.com>
In-Reply-To: <087f01c3f14d$3ba3c430$471b3dd4@dual>
References:  <07b801c3f0c5$50b88780$471b3dd4@dual> <20040211181705.GC69282@xor.obsecurity.org> <087f01c3f14d$3ba3c430$471b3dd4@dual>

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On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:

> From: "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru@freebsd.org>
> = On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:17:05AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> = >
> = > Read UPDATING.
> = >
> = Its COMMON ITEMS section.
>
> To be honest, I never got that far in the File. I looked at the dates and
> when I thought nothing more could be relevant, I stopped.
> And I never noticed the small message next to warner's credentials, about
> the most essential part of standards of the updating.
> Note that the whole file is like 1500 lines, which is a lot to go thru.
>
> It'll sound like justifying myself but perhaps the lines on COMMON ITEMS
> should be the same layout as about 5.x performance. So there's a bigger
> chance that newbies (or lazies) get to see this part of the file.
> Or split the file in 2 parts: updating.actuals and updating.common

There's enough troubles trying to get people to read one file, and you
want to introduce another? :-)

Regards,
Andy

> Andre Guibert de Bruet | Enterprise Software Consultant >
> Silicon Landmark, LLC. | http://siliconlandmark.com/    >



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