svn commit: r278258 - stable/10/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 6 19:01:00 UTC 2015


On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 06:35:06AM -0700, Adam Weinberger wrote:
> > On 5 Feb, 2015, at 6:07, Glen Barber <gjb at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> It also notes:
> 
> > +    <para>Source-based upgrades (those based on recompiling the &os;
> > +      base system from source code) from previous versions are
> > +      supported, according to the instructions in
> > +      <filename>/usr/src/UPDATING</filename>.</para>
> 
> Any chance something similar can happen for /usr/src/UPDATING?
> In the stable/* and releng/* branches, the how-to-upgrade information
> appears nearly 2,000 lines down. Maybe:
> 
> - Everything from most recent branch, (or most recent - 1?) onward
> - "COMMON ITEMS"
> - Everything else
> 

I like this idea.

I've also been kicking around the idea of moving the 'COMMON ITEMS' and
everything else to a separate file, since they tend to change less
regularly.

Thoughts on which approach would be more beneficial for the end-user?

Glen

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