Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 04:01:05 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Jackson Donadel <fatboy@linuxbr.com.br> Cc: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current Message-ID: <20000110040105.A9397@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <00e401bf5b5c$1e770a60$739ef8c8@void.net>; from fatboy@linuxbr.com.br on Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 09:16:12AM -0200 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.1000109222643.85635A-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> <00e401bf5b5c$1e770a60$739ef8c8@void.net>
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* Jackson Donadel <fatboy@linuxbr.com.br> [000110 03:41] wrote: > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Jackson Donadel wrote: > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> > > > To: Gustavo V G C Rios <grios@ddsecurity.com.br> > > > Cc: <questions@freebsd.org> > > > Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2000 8:29 PM > > > Subject: Re: current > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > > > I would like to install FreeBSD current into a 2nd slice, but i have > no > > > > > ideia on how to perform such an action! > > > > > > > > Unless you have a good reason to run -CURRENT, you oughtn't. If you > don't > > > > know how to install it, you probably don't have a good reason. > > > > > > > > > > > Why not install? > > > > > > > Because -CURRENT isn't really for use by most people. There is no > guarantee > > that it is going to work on any given day. There are all sorts of things > > that get broken on a regular basis. There is no support for it. If you > > can't figure out how to install it (and there is enough in the handbook to > > go on) you have no business running it. > > > > I understand this David, but i canīt install because i donīt have enough > information, but if i want i can > I do this yeasterday and do a make world, the system simple crash. > Because /proc is of old bsd and the tools are for the 4.0 ps crash, top, > make, sh, bash, and much more. > But i think that we can help you are in development, saying this kind of > things. > > Ie.: Hey boys, ps is broken here is my fix :) > > Jackson let me clear this up: 1) current is *UNSUPPORTED* 2) it is especially *UNSUPPORTED* for install and upgrade issues unless you are reporting a bug. now please stop asking, no one is going to hold your hand through a -current update if you don't have the experiance to run -current. if you feel you must run -current, then do a fresh install from ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/ but please respect the mailing lists and do not ask questions without doing any research about unsupported portions of the system, it's really unfair to pollute the list with this sort of thing. thanks, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@rush.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Wintelcom systems administrator and programmer - http://www.wintelcom.net/ [bright@wintelcom.net] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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