Upgrading world from 5.0-dp1 to 5.1-RELEASE

[Willem Jan Withagen]

From: "Ruslan Ermilov" <ru at freebsd.org>
= On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 10:17:05AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
= > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 06:34:34PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
= > > Adding to te sequel:
= > > 
= > > # made shure that /etc/make.conf were insync.....
= > > # cd /usr/src
= > > # make installworld
= > > ............... after some work
= > > --------------------------------------------------------------
= > > >>> Installing everything..
= > > --------------------------------------------------------------
= > > cd /usr/src51/src; /usr/obj/usr/src51/src/make.i386/make -f Makefile.inc1
= > > install
= > > ===> share/info
= > > install -o root -g wheel -m 444  dir-tmpl /usr/share/info/dir
= > > *** Signal 12
= > 
= > Read UPDATING.
= > 
= Its COMMON ITEMS section.

Thanx for pointing that out.
To be honest, I never got that far in the File. I looked at the dates and
when I thought nothing more could be relevant, I stopped.
And I never noticed the small message next to warner's credentials, about
the most essential part of standards of the updating. 
Note that the whole file is like 1500 lines, which is a lot to go thru.

It'll sound like justifying myself but perhaps the lines on COMMON ITEMS
should be the same layout as about 5.x performance. So there's a bigger
chance that newbies (or lazies) get to see this part of the file.
Or split the file in 2 parts: updating.actuals and updating.common

On the other hand this part only suggest to mount the partitions of the
system to be upgraded. Which would prevent some/all of the make snags.
disavantage is that you have to mess around with make.conf.
The handbook suggests NFS upgrading/updating the way I did it, which feels
more natural.

--WjW