From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 15 11:21:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sstar.com (sstar.com [209.102.160.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BD3137C1E8 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:21:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: from jking ([134.132.75.164]) by sstar.com with SMTP (IPAD 2.52) id 6237300; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:21:38 -0600 Message-ID: <005701bf8eb3$b02b2150$a44b8486@jking> From: "Jim King" To: "Warner Losh" Cc: References: <20000315174557.C40984@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <200003151903.MAA88473@harmony.village.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: 3.x -> 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:21:39 -0600 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 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <20000315174557.C40984@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> Ruslan Ermilov writes: > : Please, people, follow the instructions given at the end of > : src/UPDATING to upgrade your system from 3.x to 4.0-STABLE. > > I'm thinking of gutting UPDATING in 4.0-stable (and 3.x stable too) > and leaving just the 3.x -> 4.0 upgrade and starting over. > > Comments? I find the current one somewhat confusing. Here's my thoughts after a quick perusal: - Put the 3.x-to-4.x instructions at the top of the file. This is what most people will be interested in. - Do I need to build a new kernel first or not? One of the breakage notices implies this, but the 3.x-to-4.x instructions at the end of the file have a buildworld before a kernel build. If I don't need to build a new kernel first I think it should say something like "you don't need to build a new kernel first despite what breakage 19990929 says". - Why do I need to do 'make -DNOINFO installworld' followed immediately by 'make installworld'? - The wd to ad device name switch should be emphasized. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message