From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 12:41:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ptialaska.net (mail.ptialaska.net [198.70.245.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9891937B787 for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 12:41:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vizion@ptialaska.net) Received: from vizion2000 (dialups-44.sitka.ptialaska.net [198.70.227.44]) by ptialaska.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA06924; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:39:11 -0800 (AKDT) Message-ID: <003b01bf9da4$1e95e2c0$2ce346c6@demon.co.uk> From: "Southwell" To: "Doug Barton" , "Brennan W Stehling" Cc: "Jim Weeks" , References: Subject: Re: make world failed Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 11:37:57 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 Disposition-Notification-To: "Southwell" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG An acknowledgement A big thankyou to those who contribute so much useful information on this list without ever feeling the need to belittle others. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Barton" To: "Brennan W Stehling" Cc: "Jim Weeks" ; Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 10:54 AM Subject: Re: make world failed > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > > > > The problem was that the makeworld.html page did not warn that moving from > > 3.x to 4.0 needed to be done differently. > > 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. > > I realize that you don't want to accept responsibility for your > actions, but please stop posting hear trying to convince us that there is > some way we could have unloaded the gun before you pointed it at your > foot. > > Thanks, > > Doug > -- > "So, the cows were part of a dream that dreamed itself into > existence? Is that possible?" asked the student incredulously. > The master simply replied, "Mu." > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message