From owner-freebsd-doc Mon Jul 12 17:11: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from dt054n86.san.rr.com (dt054n86.san.rr.com [24.30.152.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DFAF15057 for ; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:11:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by dt054n86.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08797; Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:10:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 17:10:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug X-Sender: doug@dt054n86.san.rr.com To: Nik Clayton Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: docs/12595: [PATCH] New FAQ Entry: "Why shouldn't I just go ahead and run -current?" In-Reply-To: <19990712231404.A18590@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -- Will Rogers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message