Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:08:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How now, BSD crow? Message-ID: <20021011100411.E86274-100000@topperwein.pennasoft.com> In-Reply-To: <3DA66BDF.7020602@eboa.com>
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On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 06:41:33AM +0200, Roelof Osinga wrote:
> >
> >>Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>
> >
> > You don't have these files *INSTALLED* yet. cvsupping doesn't install
> > them for you, 'make world' (not 'make buildworld'!) does.
>
> Yeah. But in my notes which I've written down based on actions inspired
> by this mailling list, sometimes somethings needed to be done before and
> sometimes things needed to be done after. For a poor luser it is a murky
> mess, indeed.
>
> For the programmers, of course, it is very clear indeed. I know. I'm one
> of those. But my clients will agree with me on this ;).
>
> > In LINT (the canonical place where kernel options are documented)
>
> Canons be darned. /usr/src/UPGRADING is what everybody gets told to read. Not
> to inspect the canons. Whatever those may be.
>
> Especially LINT. LINT is nice if you want to look something up, but it is
> not a hands-on manual that leads one through all the steps needing to be
> taken to implement some such thingamathing or other.
In the handbook we trust:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
"For details of all the possible kernel options, see
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT."
However, I'd agree with you if you suggested that the prerequisites
for smbfs should be documented in an smbfs man page. I'd even be
willing to take a cut at writing said man page (I'm sometimes mocked
for not only knowing, but *liking* troff, but it does come in handy
sometimes).
--
Chris BeHanna http://www.pennasoft.com
Principal Consultant
PennaSoft Corporation
chris@pennasoft.com
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