From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 15:47:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gadolinium.btinternet.com (gadolinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.111]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18AF737BB7E for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 15:47:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org) Received: from [213.1.201.225] (helo=parish.my.domain) by gadolinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #1) id 12cFdL-0003eD-00; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:47:48 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01753; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:47:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 23:47:11 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Brennan W Stehling Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <20000403234711.A233@parish> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from brennan@offwhite.net on Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:41:22PM -0500 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:41:22PM -0500, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > You are a complete prick. Whoa there. You are bang out of order here my friend. You may have a difference of opinion with one or more others on the list, but descending to personal abuse is unacceptable so please refrain from such behaviour. > Many people have agreed that there is a > conflict in the documentation. I am not going to try to justify my > actions for you. There is no point. > > You are an angry person and your comments are not constructive in any way. > Other people have expressed their frustration that the documentation is > sparse and that the UPDATING file which was empty for so long suddenly > becomes a key component to the build process. > Which UPDATING? The one in 3.x will probably be empty, the one in 4.x most certainly isn't. The one on my machine, last cvsup'd about a week ago, contains entries going back to 19981118. > If you cannot recognize that as a problem, you can piss off. I do not > need to read the negative comments of a complete prick. > See above. > Through my comments a few people have decided to put some effort into > improving documentation and I am going to help in that effort. > > These efforts will result in a new site, greasydaemon.com. > > Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin > projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com > > fortune: > Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason. > -- Winston Churchill > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Brennan W Stehling wrote: > > > > > Once again I get flamed. > > > > > > I am not saying I did not screw up the install. That is obvious, but the > > > documentation did not give any warning that the 4.0 upgrade would not work > > > as the ugprades from any of the 3.x upgrades did. I realize 4.0 has many > > > radical changes, that is why I looked so hard to find more documentation > > > on the site. > > > > And totally ignored the warnings you did see on the documentation > > you did find. > > > > > I was subscribed to freebsd-announce and did not see anything on that list > > > to offer warning. > > > > Because that's not the list for that type of subject matter. > > > > > The makeworld.html page has side notes for 2.2.5, but nothing for the > > > current and stable versions. It just makes sense to me that any important > > > changes would be reflect on that page. Afterall, it is the official > > > FreeBSD handbook while the mailing list may not offer accurate help. > > > > Your logic is flawed. > > > > > In the future I think I will stick to reading online documentation and > > > avoid the mailing lists. > > > > Which will guarantee that you will have additional problems, and > > continue to point the finger of blame at others when viable solutions are > > available to you. > > > > 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 -- Beam me up Scottie, there's no intelligent life down here ________________________________________________________________ FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark/ mailto:mark@ukug.uk.freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message