From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 4 8: 8:40 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B3C37BAAF for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 08:08:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brennan@offwhite.net) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA41752; Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:08:21 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2000 10:08:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Brennan W Stehling To: Michel TALON Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed In-Reply-To: <20000404103655.A310@lpthe.jussieu.fr> 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 It looks like that would have helped me a great deal. Thanks for making that change. I am sure it will help someone else down the road. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/makeworld.html Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com fortune: Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes. -- Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, UTCS On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, 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. > > -- > > Michel TALON > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message