From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 2 17:28:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2E5A37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:28:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailout03.sul.t-online.com (mailout03.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7F043EC2 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:28:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fwd11.sul.t-online.de by mailout03.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 18J1r8-0000xq-03; Tue, 03 Dec 2002 02:28:10 +0100 Received: from jhs.muc.de (520006753247-0001@[217.235.121.5]) by fmrl11.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 18J1r7-1FVahkC; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 02:28:09 +0100 Received: from flip.jhs.private (flip.jhs.private [192.168.91.24]) by jhs.muc.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gB31YJC00280 for ; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 02:34:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: (from jhs@localhost) by flip.jhs.private (8.11.6/8.11.6) id gB31Y9213995; Tue, 3 Dec 2002 02:34:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs) Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 02:34:09 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200212030134.gB31Y9213995@flip.jhs.private> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Fcc: sent-mail Subject: Suggestion: Install RELNOTES.TXT in root of host. From: "Julian Stacey" Organization: Vector Systems Ltd, Munich Unix & System Engineering Consultancy X-Web: http://berklix.com/~jhs/ X-Sender: 520006753247-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Suggestion: Make RELNOTES.TXT install from [cdrom] media root to target host [root ?], to make it easier for 4.* to 5 upgraders & testers etc, to do a quick check on what is changed. 70K of space used will save many people time. It's on the web, (if one is connected when testing), & on the install .iso (if with you & mounted), but installed would be better. /usr/src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml - Doesnt build & install RELNOTES.TXT from a make world, (needs release/Makefile stuff & doc/ &/or ports/ I presume). - Is deep buried, & took far too long to find: EG When searching for rdist clues as per &man.rdist.1; has been retired from the base system, but is still available from &os; Ports Collection as net/44bsd-rdist there were 20+ other files in src/ also referring to rdist. Steve K. wrote (re. rdist): It was removed almost 2 years ago ... But only current people know such things, not 4.* users, as rdist is still in newest release 4.7. So it'd be good to install /RELNOTES.TXT to hard disc. Julian Stacey jhs @ berklix.com Computer Systems Engineer, Unix & Net Consultant, Munich. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message