Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:10:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <Doug@gorean.org> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/12595: [PATCH] New FAQ Entry: "Why shouldn't I just go ahead and run -current?" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907121706340.8744-100000@dt054n86.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <19990712231404.A18590@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Nik Clayton wrote:
> I'm in two minds about this -- I can see your point, that the sort of
> people it's aimed at probably won't read it anyway, but. . . it might
> make a difference. Given that we don't know whether it will or not,
> and since the submission would drop straight in to the FAQ with no
> changes required, isn't it a better idea just to put it in anyway?
I agree with Nik. There are a certain percentage of users who do
actually read things like the FAQ, and misunderstand that "-current" means
"new and cool." It would also be nice to have all of the reasons not to
run -current collected in a faq entry, because *answering* questions on
the lists with FAQ's is almost as good as preventing them from popping up.
The one thing I would add is that world build problems in -current
are often fixed by 'chflags -R noschg /usr/obj/* && rm -rf /usr/obj/* &&
make -DNOCLEAN world' (suitably formatted of course). The reason this
often does the trick is that dependencies sometimes get stale after things
are changed in the tree, so a virgin object directory fixes things up.
HTH,
Doug
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