From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 17 12:46:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8CBE337B718 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:46:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 33176 invoked by uid 100); 17 Mar 2001 20:46:10 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15027.52498.622148.452481@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 14:46:10 -0600 To: Francisco Reyes Cc: Mike Meyer , Haikal Saadh , Subject: Re: 4.3-BETA In-Reply-To: References: <15026.62584.999579.19774@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.89 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Francisco Reyes types: > On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Mike Meyer wrote: > > That suggestion isn't inappropriate. On the other hand the label "-RC" > > (release candidate) stil generates problems, so I'm not sure it would > > work. I suspect that *any* change in name will generate "I tried to > > get -STABLE, and got -FOO" messages. Not changing it would make life > > difficult for users who *wanted* to know they were getting a BETA or > > RC version. > > > > Possibly this information needs to go in the handbook on tracking > > -STABLE, rather than a FAQ. > > On another thread someone mentioned making a change to motd, but we know > that this may not work if people don't read mergemaster, or have their own > motd. That's actually better than changing the handbook, as there are places outside of the FreeBSD web site that have instructions on tracking -STABLE. > How about changing the buildworld and kernelconf targets to support having > a message at the end? This would be a general purpose tool which could be > used not only for going into new releases or for other matters. > Even simpler change those targets to point the user to read > /usr/src/UPDATING. This doesn't belong in UPDATING. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message