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John Baldwin wrote:
> [snip]
> Probably a note in the make world tutorial about make world not being useful
> for branch upgrades would help, however.  If people knew that they needed to
> wait for different instructions for the branch upgrades, then people would
> (hopefully) wait for the finalized set of instructions to filter out of the
> mailing lists and into web sites and what not.

One way to ensure that people consulted appropriate documentation
(or even just the appropriate caveats) is the simple expedient
of having the Makefile print a message. Anyone trying to do 
"make world" upgrade receives a warning, and a pointer to where
to look.  There are precedents for this: when rebuilding the 
kernel, one is reminded to do a "make depend".  A number of
ports (notably the crypto stuff) even require you to define
a variable before they'll compile (though that would be a little
too much for this situation).

I'm not saying this should be done for everything, but it does
make sense for builds with potentially severe consequences if
done wrong.

BTW, John, thanks for trying to bring some civility and reason
back to this thread.

  --Dwight Tuinstra
    tuinNOSPAMstra@clarkson.edu
    tuinNOSPAMstra@northnet.org


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