Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:39:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <200004031939.PAA77614@rtfm.newton> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004031147560.2238-100000@dt051n0b.san.rr.com> from Doug Barton at "Apr 3, 2000 11:54:27 am"
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Doug Barton once stated: = The actual problem was that you stuck to that web page as your only =source of information. Right at the very top of that page, in bold =letters it says that you need to subscribe to and read the -stable =and/or -current mailing lists before trying to track -stable. If you =had done that, you would have seen ample discussion about the =particular problems related to that upgrade. Soon, we'll read, that one needs to follow this mailing lists to even use FreeBSD. This is wrong -- the original poster is not "tracking -stable", by which I mean regular rebuilds. He merely wanted to go from one release to another -- once. And did it the way he always did before, after consulting the same information sources he consulted before. The problem here is the UPDATING file's usefullness was questionable (at best) for a long while (even now, it is only usefull once, it seems), and all the other (usefull) information sources did not even mention the steps required for 3.x->4.0 transition (according to the original poster, anyway). Neither did any of them mention that the UPDATING is now a reasonable source of information, again... What's the point of creating new source of instructions with every release, anyway? -mi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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