From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 5 13:58:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70E8337BDC8 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 13:58:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA97800; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:58:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id OAA84055; Wed, 5 Apr 2000 14:57:58 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <200004052057.OAA84055@harmony.village.org> To: David Murphy Subject: Re: make world failed Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 18:08:55 -0000." <20000405180855.O13499@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> References: <20000405180855.O13499@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> <20000404220906.K53658@cage.tse-online.de> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 14:57:58 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000405180855.O13499@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> David Murphy writes: : 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. I will point out that the very beginning of the UPDATING file did say to search for COMMON ITEMS for those commonly performed items. Most clueful people were able to find it :-). However, with the release it became clear that was the most important thing people would be looking at, so its position should reflect that. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message