From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 5 10:10:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from student-mailhub.dcu.ie (ns.dcu.ie [136.206.1.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0F937B951 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drjolt@redbrick.dcu.ie) Received: from enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie (postfix@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie [136.206.15.5]) by student-mailhub.dcu.ie (8.9.3/8.9.3/893-FD) with ESMTP id SAA15762 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:10:32 +0100 (BST) Received: by enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie (Postfix, from userid 2034) id E03D77CB2; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:08:55 +0100 (IST) Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 18:08:55 +0000 From: David Murphy To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make world failed Message-ID: <20000405180855.O13499@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> References: <20000404220906.K53658@cage.tse-online.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from juksi@iname.com on Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 06:57:23PM +0300 X-no-archive: yes Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Quoting by Jukka Simila : > that showed me a list of files, and there was BIG LETTERS: UPDATING > I thought, well, I'm now running 3.4, and I'm about to install 4.0, > so I'd guess that's called UPDATING. Some common sense, I think? I > read the UPDATING and followed those very simple instructions there > (well I have to admit I couldn't build a custom kernel before I had > updated the system with GENERIC, but that really isn't a big > problem) Where in UPDATING did you find the update instructions? I did the same as you, except when I came to read UPDATING, it looked like a changelog, so i stopped reading after a 5 pages or so - little did I know at the time that the critical instructions were at the end of the file. Shortly after, those paragraphs were moved to the top of UPDATING, which is a vast improvement, and greatly improves the chances of basically clueful people finding the instructions. It's this level of improvement that the docs need most - moving/putting pointers to pre-existing text to places where the basically clueful will look. -- When asked if it is true that he uses his wheelchair as a weapon he will reply: "That's a malicious rumour. I'll run over anyone who repeats it." Stephen Hawking - [http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/07/features/features1.html] David Murphy - For PGP public key, send mail with Subject: send-pgp-key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message