Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-13 Thread Ben Smithurst
Shawn Barnhart wrote: > I guess it's not a question of finding glaring errors that seemed worthy of > send-pr, but things I found misleading, confusing or outdated by "newer and > better" procedures like make buildkernel. I got my commit bit by sending PRs which were as simple as typos sometimes

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-13 Thread Shawn Barnhart
- Original Message - From: "Nik Clayton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | # cd /usr/gnats/docs | # grep -i barnhart * | # | | S'funny, this seems to be the first time you've told any of us. Next | time, please use send-pr(1) with the category set to "docs". It would be | appreciated if

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-13 Thread Nik Clayton
On Tue, Jul 11, 2000 at 01:33:58PM -0500, Shawn Barnhart wrote: > I guess I don't care which tools I use, so long as they do the right > thing, and, most importantly THAT THE METHODS ARE TOTALLY DOCUMENTED > WITH ALL THE QUIRKS IN THE FSCK'N HANDBOOK AND NOT JUST IN THE MAILING > LIST ARCHIVE! >

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-12 Thread Warner Losh
In message <00b801bfeb66$94ab2960$9b239fc0@mobocracy> "Shawn Barnhart" writes: : I guess I don't care which tools I use, so long as they do the right : thing, and, most importantly THAT THE METHODS ARE TOTALLY DOCUMENTED : WITH ALL THE QUIRKS IN THE FSCK'N HANDBOOK AND NOT JUST IN THE MAILING : LI

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-12 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> 1. The other 1199 new FreeBSD CD-ROM customers you need to get, are they more >likely to be CVSUPping, mailing-list tracking, make-worlding-since-2.0.1 The people who buy the CDs tend to be more "expert" in nature, it's the newcomers who generally FTP install the system. >experience?

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-12 Thread Michael Robinson
"Jordan K. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Once you add up his full benefit package (medical, dental, 401K, >insurance, etc) and salary, it still takes another 1199 of you to pay >for the rest of him just through buying CDs at full price, three times >a year. [...] >To summarize, it counts,

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-11 Thread Vivek Khera
> "KK" == Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KK> support after the fact, and so people should be using the buildkernel KK> target if they want their kernel builds to work across upgrades. Which is a very different claim than saying you should *always* use buildkernel, and no other met

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-11 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: >Well, I didn't see you very active with the 20-odd people who posted the >same build error this time around. And I think it makes much more sense to >teach people to use a tool which won't have dependency problems in the >first place than to catch them a

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-10 Thread Jeff Wyman
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote: > There is also the option of naming your kernel config file "kernel". > Yes, but some people don't like to name their children "kernel" for whatever reason. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in t

Re: HEADS UP! Always use the 'make buildkernel' target to make yerkernels

2000-07-10 Thread Vivek Khera
> "KK" == Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KK> On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Vivek Khera wrote: >> So you're saying that even after upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 you should >> use make buildkernel? That seems counter to what has been discussed >> before, and is way non-BSD-ish. KK> Buildkernel