Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 19:52:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Gunnar Flygt <gunnar@pluto.sr.se>, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@sunbay.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: agp_if.c Message-ID: <200008100252.TAA74174@earth.backplane.com> References: <200008090743.AAA50631@earth.backplane.com> <134950593991.20000808104445@corbina.net> <20000808104924.E11454@sunbay.com> <20000808123728.D92082@sr.se> <200008092038.OAA50466@harmony.village.org>
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:BTW, I couldn't find the phrase 'use the magic kernel building
:mechanism and it ought to work' in my UPDATING file. Such a phrase is
:patronizing and in appropriate for UDPATING. Can you tell me which
:version you found it in?
:
:Warner
I think it's well deserved, actually. All the updating file says is
to essentially rebuild the world. That's a cop-out and a huge
annoyance if someone just wants to get a blasted kernel compiled up
and doesn't have 2 hours to waste waiting for a buildworld.
UPDATING needs to contain more detailed instructions. For example, if
all you need to do to get the new binutils is to compile up
/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils, then UPDATING should damn well SAY that.
Same goes with other breakages. If UPDATING had simply stated that all
one needed to do was to 'cd /usr/src/share/mk; make install', rather then
build the fraggin world, it would have saved me over an hour of hunting
around trying to figure out why the kernel compile was breaking.
In the last month I have wasted at least 8 hours working around kernel
breakages that two simple paragraphs in UPDATING could have prevented.
You bet your ass I'm pissed off! Stop trying to minimize UPDATING and
put something *DETAILED* in it the next time someone commits something
that will break an existing tree!
-Matt
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