From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 4: 3:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FC4837B66C for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 04:03:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00721; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 07:03:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200004041103.HAA00721@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000404103655.A310@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 07:03:42 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Michel TALON Subject: RE: make world failed Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 04-Apr-00 Michel TALON wrote: > I have upgraded from source yesterday to 4.0-Stable following the nice > instructions at the beginning of UPDATING and everything turned out fine. > Congratulations to the developpers and particularly to W. Losh for its > addenda to UPGRADING. However, i am reading the stable mailing list and > was aware that several people had screwed their machine doing this upgrade. > Two weeks ago, the instructions in UPGRADING were everything except clear. > So, as is often the case one needs to wait a little bit that several people > run into trouble before plunging in the game. This is unfortunate, because > it means that ordinary users (not following CURRENT) cannot test the > candidate release as soon as possible, thereby detecting unusual bugs without > risking very much. Had the correct and detailed explanations been written > a month ago, it would have been very possible. ---------------------------- revision 1.71 date: 2000/02/23 05:51:02; author: imp; state: Exp; lines: +4 -2 Slightly improved 3.x -> current instructions. ---------------------------- revision 1.70 date: 2000/02/22 01:50:25; author: imp; state: Exp; lines: +22 -4 Add 3.x -> 4.0 upgrade instructions Make it plainer the kernel rebuild required point. I had thought these changes were already in. ---------------------------- That last commit was on February 23. Today is April 4, looks like over a month to me. :) -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message