From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 13 13: 5:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (CDR27-115.accesscable.net [24.138.27.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06B237B423; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id e8DK4qs70511; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:04:52 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:04:52 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Warner Losh Cc: Kris Kennaway , Francisco Reyes , Gregory Sutter , "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: 4.1-STABLE fails to 'buildkernel'? In-Reply-To: <200009131847.MAA89939@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > In message The Hermit Hacker writes: > : irrelevant. I try and keep my systems "up to date" within a month, > : sometimes less, sometimes a bit more, and *automatically* read through > : /usr/src/UPDATING as far as the last time I upgraded ... whether that be > : my 5.0-CURRENT system at home, or the 4.1-STABLE machines I have deployed > > Do you have a concrete suggestion then? The upgrading instructions do > change over time. The only one I have is what I made last night ... put the 'command sequence' at the top of the file and everything after that, so that those key instructions don't move down the file as the file gets appended to. I find that file invaluable, as it saves me asking stuff just cause I overlooked it the month previous in the commit messages, or didn't read the thread cause it wasnt' pertinent to me at the time ... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message