Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 21:14:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> To: Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us> Cc: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Xorg built fails on CURRENT: can't find Xauth.h Message-ID: <20040727211314.N80850@xeon.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <1090975480.534.3.camel@zircon> References: <20040727223701.07D1B5D08@ptavv.es.net> <1090975480.534.3.camel@zircon>
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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Joe Kelsey wrote: > On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 15:37, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> > > > But... there is nothing in UPDATING. I have copied the list just in case > > > someone out there thinks there should be. Right now: > > > > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>grep -i xorg UPDATING > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>grep -i libwnck UPDATING > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>grep -i libxklavier UPDATING > > > sunny:RabbitsDen>ls -l UPDATING > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 69125 Jul 25 16:37 UPDATING > > > > > > Considering that this is ports issue, I honestly did not expect > > > anything in UPDATING anyway. > > > > > Which UPDATING file? > > > ls -l /usr/ports/UPDATING > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 19155 Jul 27 03:56 /usr/ports/UPDATING > > > > ports has its own and that is where to look for such information on ports. > > This is EXACTLY the reason that we need to ADVERTISE the NEW UPDATING > file much more! I encountered another problem which had an entry in > /usr/ports/UPDATING, but since I completely missed the months-old > announcement of the creationof the file, I never looked there and got > yelled at my many, many people for my supposed stupidity! I'm all for announcing it. I never heard of it until last week. I too was told to read it, I was stupid for not reading it, why aren't you reading it? > We need to have a regular announcement on -CURRENT, -STABLE and all > ports-related newsgroups that /usr/ports/UPDATING exists and needs to be > looked at regularly! Just because someone created it many months ago > does not mean that everyone knows about it! It needs to go out on freebsd-announce IMHO. -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/
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