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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"
To: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:39:20 -0400 (EDT)
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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


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