From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 25 8:54:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF8E037B405; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020425155440.JDYZ17742.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:54:40 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g3PFsecB076138; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:54:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3PFseCS076137; Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:54:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204251554.g3PFseCS076137@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5+ 20020416 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Karsten W. Rohrbach" , Doug Barton , JJ Behrens , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Release notes (was Re: *** HEAD'S UP ***) In-reply-to: <200204251544.g3PFipCV075997@intruder.bmah.org> References: <20020422114407.B21612@alicia.nttmcl.com> <20020423215717.S66402-100000@master.gorean.org> <20020424125400.F87244@mail.webmonster.de> <200204241304.g3OD4slv062649@intruder.bmah.org> <20020425152543.A13500@mail.webmonster.de> <200204251544.g3PFipCV075997@intruder.bmah.org> Comments: In-reply-to bmah@FreeBSD.ORG (Bruce A. Mah) message dated "Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:44:51 -0700." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 08:54:40 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I wrote: > > you know how to make the docs, i know how to generate them, but does a > > newbie who just got the cd set and upgrades the system know it?=20 > > Man, this is the *easy* case! Every CDROM, for as long as I can > remember, has had the release notes (in text) in the *top level > directory*. Since 4.4-RELEASE, we started putting HTML as well. > snapshots.jp.freebsd.org adds PDF for their snapshot ISOs. You can even > read these from sysinstall's documentation menu. In addition, the > announcement for every release, as well as the main Web site, has a > pointer to the on-line version of the release notes. I just realized that you may have meant something different. Like, how does a newbie figure out how to read the *new* release notes for a system they are upgrading from source...not read the ones that came with their distribution? He/she can either read it on the Web (as presented many times before), or look in src/release/doc/README if he/she wants to build the release documentation from scratch. I'm receptive to concrete suggestions for this file. I'd also claim that someone doing source upgrades to a FreeBSD system isn't a "newbie", or they *shouldn't* be. :-) Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message