From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 10 5:52:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 71C6E37B423 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2001 05:52:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 30446 invoked by uid 100); 10 Apr 2001 12:52:06 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15059.502.493117.364068@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 07:52:06 -0500 To: Nik Clayton Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Releases In-Reply-To: <20010410120701.A749@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> References: <5.0.2.1.0.20010409111054.00b18008@pop.schulte.org> <20010410120701.A749@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nik Clayton types: > I don't see any way in which someone could start running -current > without seeing that warning, or the equivalent warnings in the Handbook. More than once people have shown up on -questions running -current because they just grabbed the "standard" supfile. Which gets them -current :-(. Which was why I suggested that it standard-supfile get the branch being run. > Short of making -current refuse to build without a magic cookie in > /etc/make.conf, and a webpage that contains that cookie along with this > dire warning, I don't see how we can make it more obvious to people that > they shouldn't be running -current if they don't know what they're doing. It would help if they had to read those docs before having a supfile that could be used to grab -current without editing the supfile. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message