From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Aug 11 17:35:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3A8E156E6 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:35:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA72703; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:34:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37B216A0.192C5EC5@gorean.org> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 17:34:40 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT-0730 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Cc: FreeBSD-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/13078: 3.2-release /etc/manpath.config misconfigured References: <199908111844.OAA19303@sporadic.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alex wrote: > In which case the stock motd should say something about -stable. I agree that the motd is not altogether clear on this point, however you may note that the motd does not say, "If you think you've found a bug please file a PR." It says to send the appropriate information to the -questions list, where someone would have done basically what I did, namely point out that it's fixed and tell you about -stable. As it happens your mentioning the problem again actually got it fixed in -stable, and I jumped the gun on saying that it was fixed already, so it's all good in the end. > Instead, it merely points one at http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/releases --- > where I looked (in the apparently naiive expectation that the > errata page would actually contain the known errata) It contains the most serious problems. FreeBSD is in a constant state of development, so listing every little item that is fixed in that file would essentially turn it into a duplicate of the CVS logs. > I am new to FreeBSD, and I doubt it would be any more obvious to > the average new user than it is to me that "stable" is more > current (and if I unsderstand you correctly, more stable) than > "release". I agree, which is why I didn't call you any names or suggest that your filing the PR was not a good thing to do. I merely pointed out that there is another path to follow that you might not have been aware of. FreeBSD, like unix itself can be difficult to find a "starting place" in. Everywhere you look there is some bit of information that depends on you knowing some other bit of information. While there are those of us who labor to make that problem less daunting, we have not yet eliminated it entirely. "First impressions" like yours are extremely valuable for those of us who can no longer look at the thing from a perspective of a new user, so thank you for sharing yours. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message