From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 21 21:25:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CDF106566B for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4B68FC19 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2828 invoked by uid 399); 21 Sep 2009 21:25:15 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 21 Sep 2009 21:25:15 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4AB7EF34.9010400@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:25:08 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20090822) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20090921210631.C9A801CC39@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20090921210631.C9A801CC39@ptavv.es.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: barbara , freebsd-current Subject: Re: Still can't seem to get sysutils/hal compile on current. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:25:18 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: > This REALLY needs to be in UPDATING, right up front. I hit it (but > figured it out fairly quickly). Lots of folks are going to hit it. It > needs to be down near the end in the update step-by-step section and > also to be very prominent in the release notes. Otherwise this will > become the main FAQ for a long time to come. (It might still be.) This btw is one of the reasons we tell people to remove all their ports to do major version upgrades, although your point about updating UPDATING is well taken. Hopefully someone with some actual knowledge of the topic will take that on. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection